Name
Frederick William Hammett
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/02/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
570892
London Regiment *1
2nd/17th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
S. 64.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
HE SOUGHT NOT PRAISE OR FAME BUT SIMPLY PLAYED THE GAME
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Frederick William Hammet was born in Crouch End, Hornsey, Middlesex in 1897 to William and Lizzie Hammett. He was baptised on 29th January 1897 at Christchurch, West Green, Haringey, Middlesex.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in 157 Rathcoole Gardens, Hornsey but by the 1911 Census he was a boarder with the Misses Wheatley (Elizabeth, Jessie and Alice) at 51 Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford, a schoolboy aged 14 along with his older brother John Capron Hammett. His mother, and sister Winifred, were also living in Warwick Road at No. 15, with William and Maud Parish (her sister). She later lived at Ivy Lodge, Bishop's Stortford where she died in March 1914. His father died in 1911.
Wartime Service
Also served under Reg. No. 2819, London Regiment. Died at 66th Casualty Clearing Station in Syria.
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £19 was split between his sister Winifred and Cox & Co Army Agents who also received his pay owing, although there is a note that some of that pay is for his brother 2nd Lt John Hammett.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
