Name
Frederick Luke Bundell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
236194
West Yorkshire (Prince of Wale’s Own) Regiment
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY
Szczypiorno P.O.W. Cemetery Mem. 4.
Poland
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth, Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1891 in Rickmansworth Frederick was the son of William and Annie(nee Davey) Bundell. William was a Gardener and they lived in Rickmansworth High Street. William died in 1903.
The 1911 census has Frederick age 20, a Coal Merchant's Clerk, with his mother, still in the High Street, and two siblings, Ellen age 24, and Walter James age 31, a Dairyman’s Assistant, who was killed in action on the 20th of September 1917. At that time Annie was living at 72, Talbot Road, Rickmansworth.
Recorded as enlisting in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 5806 Hertfordshire Regiment.
Frederick was captured, uninjured, during the Second Battle of Kemmel on the 25th of April 1918. This action took place towards the end of the German Spring offensive which failed in its objective of breaking through the allied lines and seizing the channel ports.
He died in the Military Hospital at Skalminschutz, Poland on the 7th of November 1918
Additional Information
Brother of Private Walter James Bundell (Bundle) who was killed in action on 20 Sep 1917.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
