Name
Frank Marshall Reddington
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Quartermaster Serjeant
4016
Coldstream Guards
1st. Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL
III. A. 28.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Frank Marshall Reddington was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1883 to James and Martha Reddington, and baptised on 25 February 1883.
In 1891 the family were living at Sheering Street, Sheering, Essex where his father was a baker. On the 1901 Census he is listed as a Private at the Caterham Barracks of the Coldstream Guards.
He married Daisy Maud Mabel Mumford on 20 November 1905 at St Peter’s Church, Farnborough, Surrey when he was already a Corporal in the Coldstream Guards living at North Camp. On 16 October 1906 they had a child Stacey Maud Ethel who was baptised on 18th November at St Matthew, Camden, London. At that time they were living at 25 Charrington Street and his occupation is given as soldier. They later had had 6 more children, Leslie, Guy, Denis, Kathleen, and twins Doreen and Thomas. On the 1911 Census he is listed as married and living at Pirbright Camp, Surrey. His widow later lived at 13 Adelaide Square, Windsor.
Wartime Service
Being a serving soldier he served in France from 13 August 1914, being one of the first to be deployed. He died during the Battle of Albert and the cemetery at Bailleulval contains several soldiers from the Coldstream Guards who died on the 21 and 22 August.
Additional Information
His widow Daisy received a war gratuity of £28 10s and pay owing of £15 4s 5d. She also received a pension of £2 10s a week from 3 March 1919. In 1922 she married William White in Reading.
N.B. Her maiden surname Mumford is sometimes miss-transcribed as Manford.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
