Name
Frederick Moses Milton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8647
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 83 to 85.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Rickmansworth memorials, Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Born 23rd August 1891 in Rickmansworth, and baptised 16 December 1904 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth. .
His parents married 3 June 1865 at St Thomas’, West Hyde, Herts. Elizabeth died 1907 in Rickmansworth, Herts, aged 61, and was buried 4 January 1908 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth; George died 1919 in the Ware, Herts, district aged 75.
In the 1901 census he is living at 6 Calvin Terrace, Norfolk Road, Rickmansworth. His father George Milton is 57 and an agricultural labourer born in Harefield. His mother Elizabeth (nee HAMSTEAD) is 54 and born at West Hyde. Albert is aged 16, Ada L is 12 and Frederick M is 9. The children were all born in Rickmansworth.
In the 1911 census Frederick is living in Watford at messrs. Nelson and Company Manufactory, Hagden Lane Watford as a caretaker.
Officially recorded as born in Rickmansworth and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Oxford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Oxford and went to France on 26th May 1915.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
