Name
Frederick Figg
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40830
South Staffordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2
I. L. 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Tom and the late Susannah (nee ATKINS) FIGG; husband of Rosina (nee CHAMPION) FIGG.
His parents married 11 December 1878 at Holy Trinity, Leverstock Green, Herts. Susannah died 1907 in Watford aged 50, and was buried 6 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Tom died 1937 in Watford aged 79, and was buried 19 October, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Recorded as born in Watford and enlisted in St Pancras, Middlesex.
Frederick was born 22 May 1891 in Watford, and baptised 26 June 1891 at St Mary’s, Watford. He attended first Beechen Grove Infants’ School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School from 3 January 1898 to 19 May 1905. He worked for the London & North Western Railway Company as a parcel porter in the Traffic Department, Euston; and married 1912 in the St Pancras district; they had one child. Rosina remarried 1920 in the St Pancras district to James H ALLEN.
On the 1901 Census, aged 12 [sic] he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a porter with the L&NW Railway aged 19, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed father and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in St Pancras, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
