Name
Frederick Waldron Stimpson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/05/1915
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
193
Suffolk Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 9
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of Richard and Mary Stimpson of Hitchin and the husband of Ellen Margarita Stimpson of Buller Road, Leiston, Suffolk. Frederick was born in Hitchin, but enlisted in Leiston in Suffolk.
Wartime Service
His Regimental Number was 193 and he served in the 4th Battalion of the Regiment. He was killed in action in France.
At the time of his death the Battalion was part of the Jullundur Brigade of the Lahore Division in the Indian Corps of the 1st Army taking part in the Battle of Festubert. The Division had adopted a defensive position due to earlier losses that could not be readily replaced.
He is remembered on Panel 9 on the Le Touret Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
