Name
Frederick Albert Tuck
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/16186
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12D & 13B.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on the Somme, France.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Frederick Albert Tuck was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1895, son of Edward William Tuck, a Coalman at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, Middx and Caroline Sophia Tuck (nee Woodham). One of four children although one died in infancy.
1901 Census records Frederick aged 5, living with his parents, and brothers William (7) and Alfred (2) at, 4 Muirs Cottages, Old Road, Enfield, Middx.
1911 Census, Frederick (15) has left school and is working at a Garden Nursery, living with his parents, and two brothers at, 62 St James Road, Enfield Highway, Middx. The family had two boarders, John Woodham (his Uncle) and Albert Ormerod.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Edmonton, Middx, initially posted to the 68th Company, Machine Gun Corps, with the service number 5475, later transferred to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number L/16186.
Frederick served on the Western Front, he was killed in Action on 13th November 1916, aged 21, during the Battle of the Somme (Battle of the Somme 1st July – 18th November 1916). At the time of his death, he was serving with the 17th (1st Football) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
Additional Information
His mother Caroline Tuck received a Dependents Pension of 6/6 a week from 14th August 1917.
His effects of £7-19s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £6-10s-00d, went to his father Edward Tuck.
Frederick served with the 1st & 17th Battalions, of the Middlesex Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
