Name
Frederick Russell Chute
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/08/1917
47
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
17th Motor Machine Gun Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WITLEY (MILFORD) CEMETERY
D. 28.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 27 Jan 1875 in Great Moulton, Norfolk, son of Edward Russell and Mary Nina Chute. Educated at Haileybury College 1888-89. He worked as a clerk in a U.K. railway engineer’s office from 1892 to Jun 1893, emigrated to Canada and worked in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada in 1913 as a miner and was living in Willows Camp, Victoria, B.C., Canada when he enlisted.
Wartime Service
Formerly a member of the 50th Gordon’s Militia, B.C., he enlisted in Victoria on 19 Jun 1916 into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He died at Witley, Surrey.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
