Name
Frederick Arthur Bennett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Royal Field Artillery
Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Bennett was born at Abbots Langley in the Spring of 1892. He was one of three sons born to John and Edit Bennett. John was employed as an Asylum Attendant and the family lived at 18 Adrian Road from before the 1901 Census until after the Great War. In the 1911 Census Frederick’s occupation was recorded as an Ironmonger’s Apprentice.
On 13th September 1914, just over a month after the Great War commenced, Frederick married Minnie Beatrice Blow at Abbots Langley.
Frederick was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour from September 1914, serving with the Bedfordshire Royal Field Artillery (RFA). In the December 1915 Magazine Frederick was listed with the Hertfordshire RFA, and remained with that unit throughout the rest of the War.
Frederick’s Service Record has been lost, and his name was not recorded in the Absent Voter Records, so little is known about his time in the Army, or when he returned from the War.
Frederick and his two brothers, Ernest and Walter, all survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
