Name
Frederick John Loosley
11 February 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
267661
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
1st/1st Bucks Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 96 to 98.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Boxmoor memorials, Chesham Trinity (Hinton) Baptist Church Memorial
Pre War
Frederick John Loosley was born on 11 February 1885 in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, the son and youngest child of Jabez and Mary Loosley and one of nine children, although one died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 27/28 St John's Road, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as a Grocer. They remained there in 1901 at which time Frederick was working as a Journeyman Baker. He worked for Darvell & Sons in Chesham and met his future wife there as her father sold his bread.
He married Edith Mary Peck on 12 December 1904 at Hinton Baptist Church, Amerson, Bucks and on the 1911 Census they were living at New Street, Waddesdon, Bucks, with their son Ashley, aged 3. Frederick was then working as an insurance agent for the Prudential Assurance Company. They later had another child, Kenneth in 1912 and lived at 100 Broadway, Chesham, Bucks.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks and joined the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, initially under reg. no. 7116 which was later changed to 267661. He was sent to France in September 1916.
He was killed in action on 16 August 1917 at Hillock Farm, St Julien, Belgium. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £4 10s and pay owing of £2 7s 8d. She initially received a pension of £1 2s 11d a week for herself and her two sons, but this was later increased to £1 7s 7d a week. She obtained probate of his estate in Oxford on 21 November 1917 with effects of £171 4s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3228, livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/storey/2129, www.buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk
