Name
Henry Richard Frost
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Bombardier
74136
Royal Garrison Artillery
297th Siege Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
I. A. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, Hendon War Memorial, Hendon, Middlesex, Hendon Garage War Memorial, Finchley United Service Club, Barnet, London
Pre War
Henry Richard Frost was born in 1893 in Kentish Town, London, the son of Henry and Mary Frost. His father was a fruit salesman and on the 1891 Census was listed as a Clerk at Covent Garden.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his mother and siblings at 71 Town Road, Edmonton, Middlesex, but his father was not listed with them. Although his mother was not listed as a widow, it is believed that his father may have died in 1898.
His mother remarried to John D'ernee in 1903 in St Pancras district and was living in Hendon in 1911 but Henry was not living with them.
He married Eva Ellen Dickens in Hendon Parish Church on 5 July 1914. Their daughter Marjorie Lily was born on 12 July 1915 and baptised on 28 July 1915 at St Mary Hendon, at which time they were living at 18 Second Avenue, Hendon.
On enlistment he was living at 10 North Street, Hendon and working as an Omnibus Conductor.
His service record states that his mother was living in Hemel Hempstead. She died in 1949 at The West Hertfordshire Hospital, Hemel Hempstead.
Wartime Service
He attested on 10 December 1915 at Hendon but was not mobilized until 7 April 1916. He was posted to the British Expeditionary Force in France on 13 August 1916. and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, joining 114th Siege Battery in the field on 22 August 1916.
He was admitted to hospital sick on 30 November 1916 and the following month was admitted to hospital with an accidental injury resulting in a sprained wrist on 8 December 1916, which did properly mend. He was eventually invalided to England with the old wrist injury on 22 December 1916, returning to France on 6 January 1917.
In June 1917 he returned to England, presumably for training and was sent to Ripon, then posted to RGA Stowlangloft (Suffolk) and eventually posted back to France on 27 July 1917 where he joined the 297th Siege Battery in the field. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 29 August 1918.
In the last days of the war he was wounded in action and died of his wounds at the 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station on 1 November 1918. He is buried at Auberchicourt British Cemetery, France
Additional Information
His widow, Mrs E Frost, 10 North Street, Hendon, N.W., ordered his headstone inscription: "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK". She received a war gratuity of £12 !0s and pay owing of £15 4s 0d. She also received a pension of £1 5s 0d a week for herself and her child.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
