Name
Frederick Smallwood
1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201786
Hampshire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
XII. B. 11.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Pre War
Frederick Smallwood was born in Horsham, Sussex in 1881, the son of William and Harriet Smallwood, and baptised there on 12 June 1881. He was one of 4 children.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Nelson, Horsham, where his father was working as a bricklayer and Frederick was 5 days old. They remained in Horsham in 1891 but had moved to 42 Trafalgar Road. By 1901 he had moved out of the family home and was listed in Highland Road, Leatherhead, Surrey as a boarder at the home of Charles and Mary Farrant, and working as a Grocer's Assistant. He continued in the grocery trade and in 1911 was a Grocer's Shop Assistant in Brackley, Northamptonshire, living at the home of Alfred and Lucy Lemon at The Central Supply Stores, Brackley.
His parents later lived at 69 High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Andover, Hants and served with the 1st/4th Battalion (Territorial Force), Hampshire Regiment.
He died on 31 July 1917 (possibly from illness) in Mesopotamia and is buried at Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery, Iraq.
Additional Information
His mother and brother Charles shared the war gratuity of £7 and the pay owing of £2 15s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild,
