Name
Frederick George Herrick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
J73244
Royal Navy
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Herrick was included in the Langleybury Roll of Honour when it was compiled at the end of the Great War. However he was baptised at Abbots Langley and was listed living at Abbots Road, Abbots Langley in the 1901 Census. As a result he was included in the records of both villages.
Frederick Herrick was born on 20th March 1901 at Abbots Langley. He was one of seven children (six sons and one daughter) born to Frederick (senior) and Augusta Herrick. At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at Abbots Road, Abbots Langley. They had lived there for over twenty years. Frederick (senior) was employed as a Market Gardener and Florist, and the family employed two servants. Frederick’s wife died in July 1898, and he re-married between January and March 1901, around the time of Frederick junior’s birth. Frederick (senior) was aged 79 and his new wife, Augusta Hedges, was 24. She was the daughter of a Cowman from Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
Frederick (senior) died on 15th October 1902, and Augusta then married Robert Andrews, a Gardener Domestic, in the spring of 1903. In the 1911 Census the couple lived at 28 Elfrida Road, Watford. The couple had four children, the eldest being Frederick (junior).
Frederick (junior) joined the Royal Navy on 11th July 1917 and served with the rank of Boy II on HMS “Impregnable”, a training establishment at Devonport. When he enlisted he noted that his occupation was Gardener. On 18th May 1918 Frederick was promoted to the rank Boy I, and on 21st March 1919 was promoted again, to the rank of Ordinary Seaman. He had remained at HMS “Impregnable” throughout the War. He continued serving with the Royal Navy after the War ended and served aboard several ships and shore bases from 1919 until he was demobilised on 15th August 1928 whilst serving at another shore establishment – HMS “Pembroke”.
It is not known when Frederick lived at Langleybury or Hunton Bridge, however he was listed living at Hunton Bridge in the Langleybury Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1919, and hence at the end of the War he was included in the Langleybury Roll of Honour.
Frederick Herrick was recorded in the records for both Abbots Langley and Langleybury and he survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
