Name
Frederick Hinstridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/03/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
66019
Royal Garrison Artillery
20th Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 9
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin,
Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hitchin, attnded Hitchin British Boys' School and enlisted in Hitchin.
His home was in Union Road, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He was given the Regimental Number 66019 and served in the 20th Trench Mortar Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was in the army for two years and at some time lost an eye and was transferred to the Southern Hospital at Southsea. He was later killed in action in Belgium.
Early in 1916 training began on the French 240mm heavy mortar which became an artillery weapon adopted by the British and one Battery of four mortars formed part of each Division 's Artillery.
He probably lost his life in the artillery duels to the east of the area of the hamlet of St. Eloi near the Ypres - Comines canal after the Actions of the Bluff from the 2nd March 1916.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 9 of the Menin Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
