Name
Frederick Charles Rhind
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
18167
Royal Field Artillery
58th Bty. 35th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POPERINGHE OLD MILITARY CEMETERY
I. L. 57.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Frederick Charles Rhind was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire in 1882, son of James Rhind a Print Compositor and Jane Guthrie Rhind (nee Rhind), both his parent were born in Scotland. The eldest of two sons.
1891 Census records Frederick aged 8, at school, living with his parents and brother James (7) at, 18 Ampton Street, St Pancras, London. The family had a live-in General Domestic Servant.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 21, (through age 18), his occupation is given as at Traveller (Soap) and his address 54 Denmark Road, Camberwell, London.
Frederick enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) in late 1901, and issued with the service number 18167.
1911 Census, Frederick aged 28, is single and a Private with the 67th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Stationed in Neemuch Rajputana, India.
His father James died on 5th March 1911 in St Pancras, London, he was buried on 8th March 1911, in Cheshunt Burial Ground, Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Frederick was serving with the 58th Battery, RFA, Stationed at Woolwich, they moved to the New Forest in Hampshire, in late September 1914, joining the 7th Division. The Division sailed from Southampton, in the first week of October for Zeebrugge in Belgium, to assist with the defence of Antwerp, but arrived to late to stop the fall of the City. They took up defensive position at important Bridges and Junctions to aid the retreat of the Belgium Army, suffered heavy casualties in the First Battle of Ypres (19th Oct to 22nd Nov 1914), Frederick being one of them, he died on 3rd November 1914, in Poperinghe, Belgium, of wounds received in action.
Frederick is buried in Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery in Belgium. Grave Ref. I. L. 57.
Additional Information
His mother Jane Guthrie Rhind received a Dependents Pension of 5/- a week from 29th May 1916, and his effects of £2-00s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
