Name
FREDERICK JAMES
29 Mar 1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1919
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Garrison Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BELLS HILL BURIAL GROUND
Plot A.3. Grave 123.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
CALLED UP FOR HIGHER SERVICE
UK & Other Memorials
We are not aware of any memorial in Bells Hill
Pre War
Frederick James was born on29 Mar 1897 in Holloway, Islington, London to Edwin George Bryant, a chemist laboratory assistant, and Elizabeth Annie (nee Seal). The family were living at 14, Ashburton Grove, Hollway. On the 1901 Census Frederick and his parents were living at 503, Liverpool Road, Holloway. On the 1911 Census Frederick had been joined by a younger sister Dorothy Doris and were still at the same address. His parents later ived at 41, Chalfont Road, Holloway, London.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted as Private 138538 in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and became Acting Corporal. He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery as Second Lieutenant on 24 Mar 1918 and went to France on 14 Jun 1918.
Few records exist for Frederick’s Service. A Soldiers Effect record contains the correct death date of 28 Mar 1919 but records his initials as ‘F A’ and cancels his war gratuity with comment ‘officer still alive 19 Sep 1919’
Additional Information
Probate of £46 10s 3d was granted.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
