Name
Frederick David Judge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
8439
Coldstream Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CUINCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Plot I, Row A, Grave 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Leavesden Road Baptist Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the Rickmansworth memorials, Not on the Sarratt memorials
Pre War
Frederick was born on 8th February 1888 in Sarratt, Herts,. third son of George and Mary (née Brown) Judge. Frederick’s entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War has his birthplace as Rickmansworth (probably the postal town for Sarratt) and there was a strong Rickmansworth family link.
His parents married 1880 in the Hemel Hempstead, Herts, district. George died 1923 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 21 April in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Mary died 1943 in Watford aged 81, and was buried 6 February, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Frederick baptised 8 February 1907 at Christ Church, Watford, as an adult.
According to the 1891 census four of his siblings were born in Rickmansworth. At the 1891 census he was living, age 2, at Providence Place, Sarratt, with his parents and five siblings. His father was working as a domestic gardener. In 1901, age 12, he was living at Red Heath Lodge, Chipperfield, with his parents and two siblings. His father was still working as a gardener. In 1911, age 22, he was a Private in the Coldstream Guards at Marlborough Lines, Aldershot.
He enlisted in London 12 August 1909, served three years with the Colours and then took up his trade again as a printer, until called up on mobilisation as a reservist on 4 August 1914.
Wartime Service
He went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, in the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards. He served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Cuinchy, near La Bassée.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 12 August 1914.
Additional Information
The army paid his mother, Mary, £18 18s 11d including a war gratuity of £5. There is an article in about Frederick the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 13 February 1915. Is featured in the De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Mike Collins, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Jonty Wild
