Name
Frederick Stanley Burgess
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/06/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
S/325
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA NEUVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, CORBIE
A. 64.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
Frederick Stanley Burgess was born 1879 in Old Ford, West Ham, London to Jonas Charles Burgess , (warehouseman for publisher), and Mary (nee McDermott).
On the 1881 Census the family of parents, Amelia (born 1870), Charles (born 1872), Mary A (born 1875), and Frederick were living at 29, Bandon Road, Bethnal Green.
On the 1901 Census Frederick’s parents were living at 48, Westbury Road, West Ham, London with son Alfred (born 1883, a gold & silversmith)
Frederick enlisted in as Private 6504 in the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) on 2 Apr 1900 for 12 (7 plus 5 on reserve) years service and was posted to the Depot at Canterbury, Kent. On 8 Jul he was posted to Provisional Battalion and on 16 Mar 1901 posted into 1st Battalion and went to India and serving in Burma (23 Apr 1901-11 Dec 1902,(India (12 Dec 1902-13 Oct 1903), Aden (14 Oct 1903-8 Dec 1904),and returned to UK on 9 Dec 1904 having extended his service to 8 yrs (+ 4 yrs reserve)on 1Apr 1904. He was placed on Reserve on 1Apr 1904 and discharged on 1 Apr 1912.
On the 1911 Census Frederick was a bookbinder living with his mother father at 129, Cam Hall, Crownfield Road, Stratford, London.
Frederick married Louisa Page on 25 December 1911 at St Mary’s Leytonstone, London.
Wartime Service
Frederick was re-enlisted as a special reservist on 7 Sep 1914 at Hitchin as Private S/325. He attested on 9 Sep and was posted to 7th Battalion leaving for France on 28 Jul 1915 as part of 55 Brigade, 18th (Eastern) Division. The Division were in the Somme Area prior to the Battles of the Somme and in the normal routine of trench duties when Frederick was wounded and died of his wounds on 17 Jun 1916.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £3 1s 7d was paid to his widow.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
