Name
Frederick Thomas Bryant (MSM)
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
77828
Royal Horse Artillery
"F" Battery, 14th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Meritorious Service Medal, Mention in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHARLEROI COMMUNAL CEMETERY
O. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
THINE FOR EVER SAVIOUR KEEP
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial
Pre War
Frederick Thomas Bryant was born in 1890 in Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, the son of George and Susan Bryant and baptised on 6 June 1890 at St Nicholas Church, Hinxworth. He had a younger sister Geraldine.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in High Street, Hinxworth, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They remained in Hinxworth in 1901 but had moved to live with his widowed grandfather Edward Slanton. They were still in the village in 1911 at which time Frederick was working as a horseman on a farm.
His parents later lived in Chapel Street, Hinxworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
When Frederick enlisted he joined the Royal Horse Artillery and served in France from 30 April 1915. He was a Gunner with F Battery, 14th Brigade.
He received the Meritorious Service Medal (awarded for long and meritorious service) and was also Mentioned in Despatches.
He died from influenza at the 55th Casualty Clearing Station (which was then situated at Charleroi, Belgium in a civil hospital) on 2 December 1918, aged 29, and is buried in Charleroi Communal Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £22 10s and pay owing totalling £37 7s 2d and his mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
N.B. Frederick's name is spelled as Fredrick on some records.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne, www.longlongtrail.co.uk
