Name
Frederick Lovell
17 Jan 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/08/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17199
Essex Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
VIII. C. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Frederick Lovell was born on 17 Jan 1890 (baptised 5 Jul 1891) in Tring to Alfred Lovell, labourer, and Mary (nee Hart).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, William, (born 1886), Elizabeth (born 1888) and Frederick, were living at 57, Akeman Street, Tring,
On the 1901 Census the family of parents Elizabeth, Frederick, Arthur (born 1892), Sidney (born 1895), Lily (born 1897), Annie (born 1898) and Alice (born 1901) were living at Willow Court, 78, Akeman Street, Tring.
On the 1911 Census Frederick was a dairyman and was living with his parents, Arthur (bricklayer’s labourer), Sidney (driver, engine builder’s), Lily (paper mill worker), Annie, Alice and Florrie (born 1904), Alfred (born 1907) and Gladys (born 1911) were living at 75, Akeman Street, Tring.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted as Private 17199 in Essex Regiment, and was probably assigned to 13th (Service) Battalion (West Ham) as it was being formed around Nov 1914. No Service Record was found for Frederick although he went to France with his Battalion on 17 Nov 1915. The Battalion was part of 6 Brigade 2 Division and took part in the Battles of the Somme particularly the The Battle of Delville Wood (15 Jul-3 Sep 1916). Frederick death was reported as killed in action on 2 Aug 1916, possibly when in the front line.
From the Bucks Herald 19th August 1916: “Lance-Corporal F. Lovell, 15th Essex Regiment, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lovell, Akeman-street, and had been in France for ten months; he was a first class bomb thrower. His friends have as yet to received official intimation of his death, but the news came through in a letter from a comrade, who also forwarded seven letters which Lance-Corporal Lovell had written, but had not posted. Up to the time he enlisted he was employed by Messrs. Rothschild’s refinery in the City, and his parents have received a letter of sympathy and condolence from the firm of N. M. Rothschild. Sydney Lovell, who was in the Bucks Territorials, was wounded on July 21, and is now in Tring. He arrived home the same day that his parents received the news that Frederick had been killed in action. A third son [Arthur] is serving with the Army in Egypt.”
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £6 10s and arrears of £2 16s was paid to his widow Ellen, who also received apension od 15s per week.
Brother Arthur served with Norfolk Regiment and Machine Gun Corps dying of Malaria in Syria 16 Nov 1918. Brother Sidney served in Ox & Bucks Light Infantry going to France on 30 Mar 1915 and survived the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
