Name
Frederick Randall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/04/1916
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12966
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green.
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green,
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Pre War
In 1911 Frederick, his wife, Alice, and three children lived at 266 New Road. He gave his age as 26. The family had arrived recently from London. His birth was registered in Brighton in the first quarter of 1886, the son of Benjamin and Emma Randall.
In 1901 his family was living in Hendon. His father was a laundryman and Frederick, aged 15, worked there too. In 1911 he worked as a gas stoker for the urban council (presumably Rickmansworth). Harold Frederick Randall married Alice Maud Fisher on 28 January 1905 at St Andrew’s church, Willesden.
His widow was left to bring up three young children: Frederick, Ada and Edward.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
12966, Private, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment. Frederick’s qualifying date for the 1915 star medal (when he arrived in France) was 4 October 1915.
He was killed in action in the trenches at Ypres on 19 April 1916. The war diary shows that the most likely date he was killed was on 18 April. Either side of that date one or two men had been wounded and on 18 April one man was killed.
The Army paid his widow £8 13s 7d including a war gratuity of £7.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson, Croxley Green in the First World War Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
