Name
Frederick James Brinkley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/12/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
238369
Royal Engineers
98th Light Railway Train Crew
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Jane (nee GARWOOD) BRINKLEY of Watford, and the late James Howe BRINKLEY.
His parents married 24 December 1879 at Holy Trinity, Holborn, London. James died 1914 in Watford aged 61, and was buried 6 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Jane died 1936 in Watford aged 77, and was buried 4 March, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Frederick was born 1897 in Watford, and baptised 21 November 1897 at St Andrew’s, Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, aged 13 he still lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 16 November 1915 in Watford for the Duration of the War, a L.N.W.R. railway clerk aged 18, 5’5½” tall, of Watford; his next-of-kin was his mother. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was missing believed drowned as a result of the sinking of the H.T. Osmanieh en route to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
