Name
Frederick Grant Sweetman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/07/1919
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Staff Serjeant
11509
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
13th Veterinary Evacuating Station
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BELLS HILL BURIAL GROUND
Plot E.5. Grave 43.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
East Barnet Valley Memorial, New Barnet,
St James the Great Church Memorial, Friern Barnet,
Barnet memorials not yet fully researched(*1),
We are not aware of any memorial in Bells Hill
Pre War
Frederick Grant was born 1893 in Kensington to John David Sweetman, a schoolmaster, and Louisa Beatrice (nee Roberts).
On the 1901 Census Frederick had 2 brothers and 3 sisters and the family were living at 5, Redfern Road, Willesden. On the 1911 Census Frederick was employed as an oil and colour assistant, living at 12 Valetta Road, Acton and now had a further 2 sisters. His father and mother later lived at 2, Norfolk Villa, Bulwer Road, New Barnet.
Wartime Service
Frederick’s Service Record, a record of Soldiers Died in the Great War, could not be found.
He served with Army Veterinary Corps as Number 509. In the Medal Rolls he is described as Reg/509 and ranked as Acting Staff Sergeant. He was posted to 13 Veterinary Evacuation Station (no information could be found for this unit, but may have been established to repatriate animals to UK following the Armistice of 1918.) Frederick died in Barnet War Hospital on 9 Jul 1919.
Additional Information
John Douglas Sweetman, eldest brother served as Private in RSSC (MT). Younger brother Albert Robert Sweetman served as Air Mechanic with RFC and RAF from 1916, having served with Royal Fusiliers as a pre-war regular. Both brothers survived.
His father, Mr J D Sweetman, 2, Norfolk Villas, Bulwer Rd., New Barnet, ordered his headstone inscription: "REST IN PEACE".
*1 If known, the ‘Barnet’ memorial is given, however ‘Barnet’ now appears to be the generic name for many historically separate Hertfordshire locations with Barnet in their name. While we try to unravel these – any help gratefully received! – we have to record ‘Barnet’. It may be that a person appears on several historical ‘barnets’. As this work is done, we will add further detail.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
