Name
Frederick Arthur Pavely (poss Paveley)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
6797
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
III. D. 26.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Memorial, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Fred was born in Sawbridgeworth in December 1892, the son of Arthur, a nursery gardener and his wife Bessie of Hand Terrace.
By 1901 his mother had died and the census records Arthur as a widower. There is a younger brother: Herbert, aged 1, and a housekeeper, Mary Ann. The situation remains the same in 1911.
The family most probably worshipped at the Congregational Church Sawbridgeworth from whose archives the photograph comes.
He was a ‘Machinist’ and worked at the local Lawrence Joinery Works and a keen sportsman and was captain of Sawbridgeworth Football Club.
Wartime Service
Fred joined the Hussars of the Line, but was later transferred to the Duke of Cambridge’s own 12th Middlesex Regiment. That arrived in France on 27 July 1915.
In 1916, the Battalion took part in the Somme offensive. On 26 October 1916 they attacked Thiepval and sustained heavy casualties, one of whom was Frederick Paveley. He suffered severe wounds to his legs and died of those wounds the next day, 27 October 1916. He was aged 23.
Frederick Paveley is buried at Contay British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
Frederick’s brother Herbert also died in the war. Although the CWGC’s records do not give a headstone inscription they do record an address for his father, which would have been recorded after Fredericks death, this was Hand Terrace, Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Theo van de Bilt, Congregational Church Sawbridgeworth, Douglas Coe
