Name
Frederick Ellis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20664
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden, We are not aware of any memorial in Bricket Wood to the villagers
Pre War
Frederick was born in Bricket Wood, Herts in 1889. His father was George Ellis and mother Emma (nee Fileds).
On the 1901 Census the family were at Bricket Wood but Emma was now a widow. Frederick became the stepson of Joseph Parcell, grocer, of Station Road, Harpenden. Fredrick was employed as a gardener by Mrs Mathey of Mackerye End.
Wartime Service
Frederick seems to have been initially enlisted as Private 25020 Middlesex Regiment.
At some point he became Private 20664 Bedfordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion and may also have been with 7th Battalion. The 7th Battalion were taking part in 3rd Ypres and on 18 to 20 Oct were holding a section of the front line which consisted of water filled shell holes. There was consider able amounts gas shells being fired from German lines, Frederick was killed on the 20 October. His remains were not recovered and he his remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild , Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
