Name
Frederick George Wisbey
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40408
Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Nuthampstead Plaque, St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway, Not on the Barkway memorial(*1), Wimpole and Arrington War Memorial, Cambs
Pre War
Frederick George Wisbey was born in 1878 in Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, the son of George and Margaret Wisbey, and was baptised on 8 December 1878 at Barkway.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Bury End, Nuthampstead, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer and they remained in Nuthampstead in 1891.
Frederick married Eleanor Eliza Bysouth in October 1898 and they were recorded on the 1901 Census living in Nuthampstead, Royston, Herts with their son Frederick Bysouth Wisbey and Frederick working as a gardener domestic. They remained in Nuthampstead in 1911 and by that time had two children, Frederick, aged 13, and 12 year old Alice.
They later lived lived at Arrington Cambridgeshire.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Wimpole, Suffolk and initially joined the Suffolk Regiment, under reg. no. 34374, later transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
Frederick was killed in action on 21 April 1917 but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 13s 10d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week.
*1 The memorial for the Nuthampstead men is in the church in Barkway, so far no direct connection to Barkway has been found.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
