Frederick Charles Reed

Name

Frederick Charles Reed
25/03/1895

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

16/07/1917
22

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Sergeant
25353
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

STE. CATHERINE BRITISH CEMETERY
E. 25.
France

Headstone Inscription

"UNTIL THE DAY DAWN"

UK & Other Memorials

Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial, Broxbourne (*1)

Pre War

Frederick Charles REED was born on 25th March 1895, in Rye Common, Hertfordshire, son of Alfred Reed a Signal Fitter for the Great Eastern Railway Company and Esther Reed (nee Lavender). One of their eight children although four died in infancy.

His parents married on 1st July 1882, at Saint James the Lees, Bethnal Green, London.

Frederick was Baptised on 2nd June 1895, in Hoddesdon, Herts.

1901 Census records Frederick aged 6, living with his parents, two sisters and brother Harry (8), at 2 Rumbold Road, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Herts. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant (Mothers Helper).

His mother Esther died in January 1910, aged 58.

1911 Census, Frederick aged 16 is employed as a Domestic House Boy, living with his Widower father Alfred, sister Lily May (22) and brother Harry (18) an Apprentice Plumber, at 17 Rumbold Road, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Herts.

The family later moved to 49 Old Highway, Rye Park, Herts.

His father Alfred died on 19th March 1917, in Hoddesdon, Herts, aged 63.

Wartime Service

Frederick enlisted in the early part of 1916, at Hoddesdon, Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service No. 25353, on completion of his training he was sent to France, arriving at Le Havre, France, on 25th July 1916.

Frederick died a year later, on 16th July 1917, aged 22, at the 149th Field Ambulance, of wounds received in action. He buried in Saint Catherine British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Ref; E. 25.

At the time of his death, Frederick held the Rank of Sergeant. 

Additional Information

His sister Daisy Reed was awarded a one-off Gratuity of £42-09s-04d, his effects of £1-00s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £9.

His Headstone inscription "UNTIL THE DAY DAWN" was requested by H. T. Reed, Esq, 49 Old Highway, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Herts, (his brother).

*1 It is not yet proven, but this is likely to be the man who appears on the Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial, Broxbourne and, if so, he was schooled there.

Frederick is also commemorated on the family headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:

Acknowledgments

Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox