Name
Frederick Bertie Summerfield
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
51611
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Wall Memorial, Potten End, Nettleden & Frithsden Gate & Plaque, Church of St Lawrence, Nettleden Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Pre War
Frederick Bertie Summerfield was born in 1895 in Nettleden, Herts, the son of Walter and Sarah Summerfield and baptised in Great Gaddesden on 15 September 1895.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Frithsden. where his father was working as a Horsekeeper on a Farm. They remained in Frithsden in 1911, at which time his father was a farm labourer, and 15 year old Frederick was working as a houseboy (domestic).
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and served initially with the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private, Reg, No. 15297 and served in France from 9 April 1915. He was later promoted and transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment as Sergeant, Reg, No. 51611.
He was killed in action on 16 April 1918. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
N.B. Although his registered name is Frederick Bertie, all military records seem use the name Bert.
Additional Information
His father Walter received a war gratuity of £24 and pay owing of £1 7s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk., hemelatwar.org.
