Name
Frederick Haggar
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
57855
Cheshire Regiment
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MESNIL-ST. NICAISE CHURCHYARD
Near North West corner.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Southoe in Hants and before joining up he was a carpenter in Letchworth. He enlisted in Hitchin. His wife lived at 33, Lancaster Road, Hitchin and they had three children all under eleven years of age.
Wartime Service
He served originally as 3778 in the Royal Engineers (East Anglian Engineers). Later he was transferred to the 16th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment with the service number 57855. He had only been at the front for three months when he had an attack of angina pectoris and although he was taken to an aid post he died in twenty minutes. He was given a military funeral in a cemetery in France.
Sources other than ‘Soldiers died’ database and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show his death as the 20th March 1917.
He was buried in Mesnil-St-Nicaise Churchyard, Somme in France, near North West corner.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
