Name
Frederick Christopher Scarborough
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
28702
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
6th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TIGRIS LANE CEMETERY, WANCOURT
I.C.15.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stevenage Old Town Memorial, St Nicholas' Church Memorial, Stevenage Old Town, Holy Trinity Church Memorial Roll of Honour, Stevenage Old Town, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Frederick was the son of Christopher & Ann Scarborough of Fishers Green Road, Stevenage.
He enlisted into the Hertfordshire Regiment but was later transferred to the DCLI.
Wartime Service
Formerly 5820 in the Hertfordshire Regiment.
On the 9th April 1917 the Battalion were in positions on the outskirts of Beaurains. They were ordered to support an attack being made by the 6th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry and had moved into trenches and shell holes in readiness for the assault. As the leading companies they came under heavy machine gun fire from a sunken road and from high ground to the right of Wancourt.
The Battalion suffered heavily with four Officers and 96 Other Ranks becoming casualties.
One of these was Frederick Scarborough. He is buried in the Tigris Lane British Cemetery, Wancourt, France.
Additional Information
www.stevenageatwar.com
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson, Jonty Wild
