Name
Frederick Dyer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
7356
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 28-30
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Offley Village Memorial
Pre War
Born Offley Enlisted Hitchin. Already serving at commencement of war he had served in India for three years.
His home address Garden Fields, Offley. He left a wife, Mrs S. Dyer, and three children.
Wartime Service
Frederick was involved in the retreat from Mons. He had been in several engagements and on one occasion had part of his cap badge shot away
He was presumed killed in action on 9th May 1915, but he had been missing for some time and in fact his body was not found.
He was 32 years of age and the first soldier from Offley to be killed.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne
