Name
Frederick William Baldock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16914
Worcestershire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE
VI. G. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath
Pre War
Born in Agra, Frederick Baldock was the third son in a family of nine children born to John and Eliza Baldock. Their first three children, all boys, were born in India and the rest of their family in Bushey Heath. They settled at 10 Itaska Cottages, Windmill Lane, Bushey Heath and remained there for more than thirty years. John Baldock was a general labourer and when he died, Eliza worked as a district nurse. At the time of the 1911 census Eliza was resident at ‘Omega Cottage’, Bushey High Road, while Frederick and three of his siblings were at Itaska Cottage. Frederick was then 22.
Wartime Service
When war was declared Frederick enlisted in London as private 16914 with the Worcestershire Regiment, 3rd Battalion. He was killed in action in 3 September 1916 and remembered with honour at Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille near the Somme. He is also commemorated on the Bushey Memorial and at St Peter’s Church, Bushey Heath.
His pension record shows the cause of death as "wounded and missing" and gives the dependant as Mrs Eliza Baldock (crossed though and annotated deceases) with the address as 10 Hasha Cottages, Windmill Lane, Bushey Heath. A pension of 5/- was granted with effect from 12/06/17.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
