Name
Frederick James Carpenter
11 August 1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16220
Essex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Boxmoor memorials (*1), Clacton-on-Sea War Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Frederick James Carpenter was born on 11 August 1879 in Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the son of Frederick and Henrietta Carpenter, and one of nine children. They had moved to London by 1881 and were living at 3 Letchford Gardens, Hammersmith.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 4 Kenmont Gardens, Hammersmith, London, where his father was working as a Platelayer. Frederick started work with the London and North Western Railway as a 14 year old train boy on 19 January 1894.
His father died and on the 1901 Census he was living with his widowed mother and siblings at 112 Railway Cottages, Acton, Middlesex. His mother was then working as a Railway Waiting Room Attendant and Frederick was a General Labourer.
He married Mabel Emily Line on 28 September 1901 at St Michael's Church, Stonebridge, Willesden and they had had five children, Mabel (1902), Frederick (1904), George (1907), Phyllis (1912) and Iris (1915) and were living at 4 Bradfield Terrace, St Osyth Road, Clacton on Sea, Essex at the time of his death.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in Clacton on Sea, Essex and served with the 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment in France from 30 August 1915 when they landed in Boulogne.
He was killed in action on 15 October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £3 16s 11d. She also received a pension of £1 11s 3d a week for herself and her children. *1 There is only one Frederick Carpenter named on the Boxmoor Memorial which could be Frederick James or Frederick John.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.hemelatwar.org., www.somme-roll-of-honour.com
