Name
Frederick George Herrieven
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
43205
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 44 and 46.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Village Memorial, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Of Dutch ancestry, Frederick was born in 1893 at Blofield, Woodbastwick, Norfolk. In the 1911 census, he was living in Fulham and was described as an ‘Errand Boy’.
Frederick was recorded as being born in Woodbastwick, Norwich and living in Sawbridgeworth when he enlisted in Stratford, Middlesex.
Wartime Service
In 1914, Frederick volunteered and enlisted at Stratford in London. He was initially assigned to the 7th Battalion London Regiment, formerly 6684, before being transferred to the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Frederick Herrieven’s date of death is given as 7 August 1917. This was during the Passchendaele offensive, although Frederick’s unit was not officially engaged that day. It seems likely then, that Frederick died from general daily attrition. The conditions at the time were akin to a quagmire and soldier’s bodies could easily disappear into the mud.
It was reported that Frederick Herrieven was living in Sawbridgeworth when he enlisted.
Frederick Herrieven as no known grave and is named on the Menin Gate, Ypres. He was aged 23.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
