Name
Fred A Bishop
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
62811
Royal Fusiliers (*1
20th (County of London) Bn.
'B' Coy,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HENINEL-CROISILLES ROAD CEMETERY
I. B. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Frederick Arthur Bishop was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1897, son of Charles Bishop a, Stocker at a Garden Nursery and Annie/Anna Bishop (nee Bircham). One of 13 children although three died in infancy.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 3, living with his parents and five siblings at, 1, Windmill Terrace, Cheshunt, Herts. The family had a boarder, Walter Schooledge (22) a, Nursery Gardener.
1911 Census records Frederick aged 13, living with parents and six siblings at, 28, Connop Road, Enfield Wash, Middx. The family had a lodger Alfred Reams (23) a, Cattle Drover.
The family would later move to Lincoln Road, Ponders End, Middx.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Tottenham, Middx. Posted to the Middlesex Regiment with the service number 34595. On completion of his training, he arrived in France with the Middlesex Regiment on 6 March 1917.
He transferred to “B” Company, 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment with the service number 62811 on 21 March 1917.
He was killed in action just 26 days later on 16 April 1917, during the Battle of Arras (6 April to 16 June 1917).
Additional Information
His mother received a dependents pension of 7/6 a week from 15 January 1918, later reduced to 4/- a week, and his effects of £2-5s-2d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
