Name
Frederick Arnott
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
6936
Royal Sussex Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVESNES-LE-COMTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. B. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Hemel Hempstead, Chiddingly War Memorial, Sussex
Pre War
Frederick Thomas Arnott was born in Roehampton, Surrey, in 1883. the son of George and Emma Arnott and the youngest of six children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Priory Lane, Putney (Lodge) where his father was a Garden Labourer. He had left the family home by 1901 and was working Grove House in Roehampton as a Gardener and one of 14 servants employed at the house and gardens. (Grove House was a large house with substantial grounds, a lake and cascading waterfalls.)
He married Maria Pick in 1906 at Chelsea and they had four children, William (1907), George (1908), Lorna (1909) and Miriam (1913).
On the 1911 Census the family were living at Burton Park, Petworth, Sussex, where he was working as a Gardener (Domestic).
His widow later lived at Chapel Cottage, Dicker Road, Hellingly, Sussex and Chapel House, Golden Cross, Hailsham, Sussex.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Eastbourne, Sussex in June 1915 and joined the Royal Sussex Regiment. He was sent to Colchester, Essex for training and was in France some months later (probably early 1916), being posted to the 7th (Service) Battalion. He would have seen action at the Battle of the Somme.
He was wounded in action at Auchy-les-Mines near Loos, where the Battalion were in trenches opposite the Hohenzollen Redoubt in mid February 1917, and evacuated to a casualty clearing station where he died of his wounds, age 33. He is buried at Avesnes-le-Comte Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £3 1s 0d. She also received a pension of £1 8s 9d a week for herself and her children. The connection with Hemel Hempstead is not known, although there are families with the same surname in the area.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.hemelheroes.com., www.dacorumheritage.org.uk., www.hemelatwar.org.
