Name
Frederick George Nason
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202784
Dorsetshire Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 92.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield
Pre War
Frederick was the son of George and Mary Ann Nason, later of Church Lane, Ettington, Warwickshire, born circa 1884.
The 1891 Census records Frederick George Nason, aged 7, as living with his parents and siblings at Eatington or Ettington, Warwickshire. His father was working as a domestic groom/coachman. In 1901 the family was in Eatington/Ettington. His father was still a coachman. Frederick’s occupation is not listed.
Frederick George Nason married Mary T. Nason in Hatfield in the Apr-May-June quarter of 1910, at some point recorded as of Ground Lane, Hatfield, Herts.
By 1911 Frederick was 26 and living at 65, Grange Rd., Kings Heath, Worcestershire working as a domestic gardener.
They had at least one child, Frederick Thomas George Nason, born 22nd December 1911 and baptised 12th January 1912.
Officially recorded as born in Ettington. Warwick and was living in Hatfield, Herts. when he enlisted in St. Albans, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frederick was formerly 7257, Bedfordshire Regiment and then Private 202784, 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. His Medal Card (medal issued) suggests that his did not serve overseas until after 1915.
The Bishops Hatfield Parish Magazine of July 1916, in the twenty third list of men mobilised from Hatfield, recorded: “Nason, Frederick George – Ground Lane – 3/5th Beds Regt.” and in October 1917: “Killed – Frederick Nason – Dorset Regt. Mrs Nason had received the following letter from the Officer commanding her husband’s company:- “It is with the very deepest regret that I am writing to inform you of the death of your husband. He was killed, whilst we were forming up for the attack, in the early morning of Thursday August 16th. His death was absolutely instantaneous, and he did not suffer any pain at all. Your husband was an excellent soldier, and both we officers and the men all thought well of him. We buried him on Friday afternoon near where we buried several of his comrades; prayers were read over his grave and a cross was put up to his memory. Your husband died doing his duty and his loss will be deeply felt by all his comrades."
Awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Additional Information
After Frederick’s death his pay owed was calculated as £2 11s 2d and authorised on February 13th 1918 to go to his widow. Later his war gratuity was calculated as £4 10s, also went to his widow January 9th 1920. The pension details are unclear but his widow’s address was recorded as Transvaal Villas, Stafford Road, Bushbury, Wolverhampton.
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Nason (Widow) of Ground Lane, Hatfield received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
Frederick is also commemorated on the family grave in St Luke’s Churchyard (SP 11/4):
In loving memory....
also Frederick George Nason who fell in war August 1917
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
