Name
Frederick John Titmuss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
49024
Labour Corps
82nd
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial - see text
Biography
There are two Frederick Titmuss' listed on the School War Memorial, which confirms that two went to the school, but evidence seems to suggest that three Frederick Titmusses served.
Frederick John was born on August 31st 1883 to William and Hannah Titmuss (née Stapleton) and so would have been thirty at the outbreak of war. Baptism records list ten children: Arthur Charles (bapt 1859), Joseph (bapt 1862), Alice Eliza (bapt 1865), Norman George (bapt 1867), Leonard Joseph (bapt 1869), Henry David (sometimes David Henry - bapt 1871), Laura Emily (bapt 1874), Isabella Jane (bapt 1877), Walter William (b 1879) and Frederick John (b 1883).
In 1911, Frederick is absent from his parents’ home near Great Green and from the Pirton census, so was living or working away from Pirton. His nephews, Arthur Frederick and Leonard Charles Buckett, who were living in his parents’ home, both went on to serve and survive.
The Parish Magazine of February 1917 records Frederick as ‘having been called up since our last list was published’ and serving with the Army Service Corps. The later issue of June 1917 records him as serving in the Labour Battalion.
By 1918 he was recorded as Private 49024, 82nd Labour Corps, with his home address as in Church Walk - this is the path from Crabtree Lane to the Church.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
