Name
Frederick Hales
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Suffolk Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Hales was born in 1885 at St Albans. He was one of nine children (eight sons and one daughter), born to Henry and Evelyn Hales. In the 1891 Census the family lived at New Kent Road, St Albans, where Henry worked as a Boot Finisher, and Evelyn as a Straw Hat Trimmer.
Frederick had married in 1908 and was living at Abbots Langley at the time of the 1911 Census. He lived at 14 Asylum Cottages, and worked at the Leavesden Asylum where he was employed as a Mental Nurse (Attendant). He enlisted at London to the Bedfordshire Regiment on 29th November 1915, and was sent home to remain on the Army Reserve. When he attested he indicated that he had six children, and was still living at 14 Asylum Manager’s Cottages, and was still employed at the Asylum.
On 1st June 1916 Frederick was mobilised and was posted to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and joined the 9th Bedfordshire’s on 5th June, awaiting despatch to Salonika.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour first listed Frederick in July 1916, serving with the 9th Bedfordshire’s.
He arrived in Salonika on 11th November and five days later was posted to the 1st Suffolk’s.
In September 1917 the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine reported that a seventh child, a son, had been born to Frederick and his wife Maud.
On 6th December 1917, whilst still in Salonika, Frederick was classified suffering from a persistent recurrence of Malaria, and on 16th January 1918 he was sent back to England, where he was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment.
A medical report on 8th March 1918 noted that from April 1917 he had been treated suffering from Para Typhoid, and that since September 1917 he had suffered recurrent attacks of Malaria. At a Medical Board on 26th April 1918 it was reported that Frederick was available for Military Service, but that his current condition was weak and debilitated. The Medical Board recommended that he should be discharged as unfit for Military Service, and that his disability was attributable to service in the War, the climate and to active service conditions. Frederick was considered to be 30% disabled. On 28th April 1918 Frederick’s discharge was approved and on 19th May 1918 he was discharged as being no longer being fit for War Service. The next day, on 20th May he was awarded a Pension, payable for the next 52 weeks. The June 1918 Abbots Langley Parish Magazine reported that Frederick Hales had been Discharged Disabled.
Frederick Hales survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 9th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment & 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Discharged Disabled
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
