Name
Frederick Reginald Wakeling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1099
Essex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Memorial, Old Harlow Memorial Cross, Harlow, Essex
Pre War
Frederick’s parents were James Frederick Wakeling, born in Little Laver in c1867 and Flora Annie Knight, born in Little Laver in 1866. They married on 20th September 1887 in Bethnal Green, east London. James Harry Wakeling was born in High Laver in the summer of 1890 and his brother, Frederick Reginald Wakeling, was born in Walthamstow in 1894 and baptised later that year.
The 1901 census records James, at this time known as Harry, and Frederick, known as Reginald, living in Bury Cottages in Old Road, Harlow with their parents and sister. James senior was working as a farm baili?. By 1911 they had moved to Rowney Farm, Sawbridgeworth, where James and Frederick were working as stockmen on a farm; James Snr. was working as a farm bailiff.
Pre-war, Frederick Wakeling is belived to have been a Territorial soldier.
Wartime Service
Frederick Reginald Wakeling, 1099, enlisted in Harlow and served in the 1st/4th Battalions of the Essex Regiment.
After a period of Home service, this Battalion was sent to fight the Ottoman Turks, and arrived at Sulva Bay, Gallipoli on 12 August 1915, six days after the initial landings.
Only a few days after landing, Frederick was mortally wounded and was actually on a ship being evacuated to a hospital at Alexandria in Egypt when he died of his wounds on 22 August 1915. He was buried at sea.
Frederick Wakeling is named on the Helles Memorial, High Wych Memorial Plaque and Old Harlow Memorial. He was aged 20.
Additional Information
Although the family were living in Sawbridgeworth in 1911, we have yet to find a direct connection for James at the time of the war.
Frederick and his brother James Leonard are also commemorated their mother’s headstone in High Wych (St. James The Great) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
ALSO GNR. J. H. WAKELING, R.F.A. DIED PRISONER OF WAR AT, ALEPPO
ALSO LC. CPL. F. R. WAKELING, 4TH ESSEX REGT. DIED AT ALEXANDRIA AUG. 22ND 1915 AGED 20.
LOVES LAST GIFT DASH REMEMBRANCE
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Remembering those who sacrificed their lives for us - War memorials and war graves in Harlow, Douglas Coe
