Name
Frederick Jennings
13 Jul 1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/12/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
G/15553
Royal Sussex Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. V. K. 10B.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
Frederick was born in Harpenden on 13 Jul 1889 to Alfred Jennings, manager of an inn, and Mary (nee Bunyan).
By the 1901 Census the family were living at Chapel Row, Harpenden. On the 1911 Census Frederick was working as a labourer and the family had moved to New Farm Lane, Harpenden.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted as Private 3250 in the Hertfordshire Regiment and was later transferred to The Royal Sussex Regiment as Private G/15553 and then promoted as Lance Corporal.
He was wounded and later died from these wounds in Rouen on 7 Dec 1917.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs M Richardson, Gas Works, Redbourn, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: “REST IN PEACE”. War Gratuity of £14 10s and arrears of £17 10s 2d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk
