Name
Frank Treffrey Willie Hedges
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
26193
Bedfordshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frank Hedges was born in 1889 at Abbots Langley. He was one of eight children born to George and Mary Hedges. His brother, Herbert Edmund also served in the Great War. George had various jobs. In the 1881 Census he worked as a General Dealer, and ten years later worked as a Cow-keeper and Dairyman, and in the 1901 Census he was described as a Car-man. The family also moved several times. In the 1881 and 1891 Census the family lived in Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley, but by 1901 they had moved to Judge Street at Callowland, before re-locating back to Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley by the time of the 1911 Census, when Frank was listed as a Car-man.
Frank attested to the Bedfordshire Regiment at the Abbots Langley Recruiting Station on 15th November 1915, and attended a Medical Examination at Watford on the same day where he was declared “of good physical development, but with 25 decayed teeth”. He was returned home, and put on to the Army Reserve on 16th November.
He was mobilised on 11th February 1916, and medically re-examined. Frank was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in March 1916. He was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment and remained in England. The Parish Roll of Honour recorded that he was serving with the 3rd Bedfordshire’s in May 1916.
On 12th July 1916 he went before a Medical Board at Landguard Fort at Felixstowe, where he was considered “Not likely to become an effective soldier on medical grounds due to untreatable mental weakness and being muscularly weak”.
Frank was discharged to Abbots Langley on 31st July 1916, and was not recorded in the Parish Roll of Honour from August 1916 through to the end of the War.
Frank Hedges survived the War, as did his brother Herbert and nephew Percy Hedges.
Additional Information
Discharged
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
