Name
Frederick Ginger
2 January 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35072
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 41 and 43.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Great Gaddesden War Memorial,
Not on the Hemel Hempstead,
Not on the Flamsted memorials,
We are not aware of any memorial in Gaddesden Row
Pre War
Frederick Ginger was born in Flamstead, Herts on 2 January 1893, the son of JohnGinger and Rebecca (nee Hebbs), and one of nine children (5 boys, 4 girls). On the 1901 Census the family were living at Pye Corner, Flamstead, Herts (next to the Infants School) where his father was working as a General Farm Labourer and his mother was a straw hat sewer as well as looking after five children. His mother died in 1907 aged 36 and the family remained at Pye Corner on the 1911 Census at which time Frederick was working as a Farm Labourer.
He married Clara May Wilkins in Hemel Hempstead in late summer 1914 and moved from Flamstead to Chequers End, Gaddesden Row. They had two children, Frederick and Alice. His widow remarried to Frederick Flitton at the end of 1919 and lived at Gaddesden Row.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in Watford and initially served with the Bedfordshire Regiment, (as Private 30626) before later transferring to the 1st/4th Battalion (T.F.) Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as Private 35072.
He was killed in action at Ypres on 31 July 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. Frederick Ginger was part of an assault to gain ground. They accomplished their objective but the Germans drove them back as the battalion ran short of ammunition and they suffered casualties of 19 officers and 300 other ranks.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow Clara received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £1 13s.
His brother Private George Ginger, Herts Regiment, was wounded at Ypres on August 1st and repatriated to a hospital in Canterbury.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk. hemelatwar.org., www.gaddesdenhistory.com
