Name
Frederick Joseph Ray (Wray)
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
T4/041104
Army Service Corps
28th Div. H.Q.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA
405
Greece
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Tewin War Memorial, Tewin Muster Roll, St Peter's Church, Tewin, We are not aware of any memorial in Tewin Water
Pre War
Frederick Ray (registered Joseph Frederick Ray) was born in Winslow, Bucks in 1891 to Ann M Ray.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his mother in Sheep Street, Winslow, Bucks and his mother was a dressmaker. He later lived at the Church of England home for Waifs and Strays, Hedgerley Court Farm Home, Near Farnham Royal, Bucks, but gave his next on kin on enlistment as his guardian, Mrs Hawkins, the Old Vicarage, Langley, Bucks. At that time he was living at Tewin Water, Tewin, Herts and working as a Footman.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted on 6 January 1915 in London and served in the Royal Army Labour Corps.
He embarked from Southampton on 15 January 1915 and arrived at Le Havre on 17 January 1915, later being sent via Marseilles to Alexandria, Egypt where he disembarked on 31 October 1915.
He was said to be an acting Lance Corporal when he died of malaria and influenza at No. 50 General Hospital, Salonika, Greece on 30 September 1918, and 26. He is buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece.
Additional Information
Although he is listed on the Memorial and Muster Roll with the surname of Wray, his surname is spelled without a 'W' on other documents and records.
His war gratuity and pay owing were said to be unused [i.e. unclaimed]
N.B. Tewin Water was a stately home at Tewin, Hertfordshire built for Alfred Beit, a wealthy diamond and gold merchant. When he died in 1906 it was passed to his brother Otto.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
