Name
Frederick Severn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/12/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Saddler
88158
Royal Field Artillery
13th Battery, 17th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY
Row J, Grave 77.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
He enlisted in Hitchin, Herts; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 19 October 1915, and died at No. 11 Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Esther Elizabeth (nee HODGKINSON) and the late Edwin or Edward SEVERN; husband of Edith Flora (nee BAKER) SEVERN.
His parents married 1876 in the Kensington, London, district. Edward died 1912 in the Hendon, Middx, district, and was buried in Roxeth Hill Cemetery, Harrow, Middx.
Frederick was born 1889 in Greenford, Middx, and married 1910 in the Hendon district; they had three children. He resided in Hitchin. Edith remarried 3 January 1920 at St Mary’s, Watford, to Claude Samuel BRIXTON, and died 25 June 1958 in Watford aged 66.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Roxeth, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he still lived in Roxeth, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a general labourer aged 21, he lived in Wealdstone, MIddx, with his wife and one child.
Additional Information
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War. His brother-in-law Henry BAKER died 4 November 1914 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
