Name
Frederick Arnold Chamberlain
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/12/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
10106
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
Cottage Garden Cem. Mem. 26.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Frederick Arnold Chamberlain was born in Enfield, Middlesex, in 1897, son of Frederick William Chamberlain, who was employed by the Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield, and Eleanor Julia Chamberlain (nee Williams), the eldest of six Children.
1901 Census records Frederick Jr. aged 4, living with his parents and brother William (2), at, 6 Bounds Green Road, Beulah Place, Wood Green, Middx.
1911 Census Frederick Jr. aged 13, is living with his parents, three brothers William (12), Ernest (5), Alfred (3) and sister Lillian (7), at, 28 Harold Road, Tottenham, Middx. His mother’s uncle Walter Williams (79), an Old Age Pensioner was living with the family.
Wartime Service
Frederick Jr. enlisted at Stratford, Essex, joining the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry with the service number 10106. His Medal Card records he arrived in France on 1st November 1914, with the 1st Battalion. He was wounded and admitted to the 14th Field Ambulance on 7th December 1914, later transferred to the Clearing Hospital at Bailleul, France. Later transferred to the 6th Battalion.
He was killed in action on 8th December 1915, aged 18, initially buried in “Cottage Garden Cemetery” St. Jean, Belgium, which was later destroyed by enemy action. He is now commemorated by a special memorial at the CWGC “White House Cemetery”, St. Jean-les-Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £3-16s-9d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £8-10s-00d, went to his father Frederick William Chamberlain.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
