Name
Frederick Dearmer
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/14661
The Queen's (Royal West Kent Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 58 & 59
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial, Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
Frederick Dearmer was born in 1887 in Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, the son of Charles and Sophia, and baptised on 10 April 1897 at St Margarets Church, Higham Gobion. He was one of nine children, although six had died by 1911, some in infancy and older sister Florence in childbirth.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in Hinxworth, near Glebe Farm, where his father was working as a groom. By the 1901 Census they were living in Glebe Cottage, Hinxworth and Frederick was working as a plough boy on a farm. They remained in Hinxworth in 1911 and Frederick was then working as a farm labourer.
He was living at Glebe Cottage, Hinxworth, nr Baldock on enlistment. His parents later lived at Picts Hill, Turvey, Bedford and Bridge Street, Turvey, Bedford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin on 11 December 1915 but was not mobilised until 26 April 1916 when he was posted to the 6th battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment.
He was admitted to hospital on 27 July 1917 with a shrapnel wound to the left leg and discharged 64 days later on 28 September 1917, then granted furlough (presumably to visit family) until 8 October 1917 when he was sent back to the front.
Frederick was assumed to have been killed in action on 29 March 1918. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £11 and pay owing of £7 11s 1d. His mother received a pension of 3s 6d a week.
N.B. Frederick's place of birth has been recorded as Higham Gobion, Beds, Hinxworth, Herts and Stondon, Beds, however Higham Gobion is most likely the correct place as as he was baptised there.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
