Name
Frederick William Hilton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
292711
Northumberland Fusiliers
1st/7th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
His home was 26, Old Park Rd, Hitchin. He enlisted in Hertford in March 1915.
Wartime Service
Initially Frederick joined the Hertfordshire Regiment with the Regimental Number 4763. Later he was posted to the l/7th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers and received service number 292711. This Battalion was part of the 49th Brigade in the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. He fought in several engagements until he was reported missing and later as having been killed in action in France.
His death coincided with an attack at Gird Lines and Hook Sap in the Somme Sector. The advance appeared to be a success, but fire from Butte Trench made communications impossible and nothing further was heard from the leading Companies.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Piers 10, 11 and 12, Face B of the great Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild, Dean Malpass