Name
Frederick Powell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
14989
Essex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10D
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Frederick was the eldest son of Mrs T. Dickinson of 16, Balmoral Road, Hitchin.
He had been born in Ely, but was resident in Hitchin and enlisted there at the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
He was given the Regimental Number 14989 and posted to the 11th Battalion of the Essex Regiment which was in the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division. He went to the Western Front in September 1915 and fought at Ypres and Loos. He was killed during heavy fighting on the Somme.
The Battalion was to the west of Trones Wood on the 11th October 1916 and went to the Gueudecourt trenches on the 13th October. They attacked Mild and Cloudy trenches on the 15th October 1916.
He has no known grave and is remembered on 10D of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
