Name
Frederick Stanley Brittain
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16059
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France to the missing.
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, Broxbourne C of E Primary School Memorial*1
Pre War
Frederick Stanley BRITTAIN was born in Burford Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, in 1891, son of Arthur Brittain a Painter and Annie Maria Brittain (nee Mizen). One of 9 children although two died in childhood.
1891 Census records Frederick a few weeks old, living with his parents, two brothers, Ernest (8), Charles (6), and two sisters Elizabeth (4) and Edith (1), in Burford Street, Hoddesdon, Herts.
1901 Census, Frederick (10), his parents, brothers Ernest (18), Leonard (7), Stephen (2) and sisters Elizabeth (14) and Edith (12), are now living at, 5 May Terrace, Stanstead Road, Hoddesdon, Herts,
By 1911, Frederick (20) was working as a Domestic Coachman, still living with his parents, brothers Ernest (28), Charles (25), Leonard (17) and Reginald (9), at 37 Stanstead Road, Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Herts.
His father Arthur Brittain died in 1920, aged 60.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service number 16059, initially with the 8th Battalion, later with the 4th Battalion.
On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front with the 8th Battalion arriving on 30th August 1915, he received a Gun Shot Wound (GSW) to his right shoulder in March 1916, he was returned home and admitted to Queen Alexanders Military Hospital, Milbank, London, on his recovery in July 1916, he returned to the front, joining the 4th Battalion.
Frederick was Killed in Action on 23rd April 1917 aged 24, he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Arras, France, to the missing, Bay 5.
At time of his death, we believe he was with, Platoon No. 1, “A” Company, 4th Battalion, of the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
His effects of £9-13-02, pay owing and his war gratuity of £12, went to his father Arthur Brittain.
*1 An F. Brittain, appears on the Broxbourne C of E Primary School Memorial, currently we believe this to be the F. Brittain, appearing on other local memorials.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
