Name
Frederick James Heyworth (C.B, DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1916
53
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Brigadier General
Commanding 3rd Battalion Scots Guards and Regimental District
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
C.B, D.S.O
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
II. C. 2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Abbots Langley memorials
Biography
Brigadier-General Frederick Heyworth was associated with Abbots Langley through a reference in the Parish Magazine made by Vicar Parnell in June 1916
“We have all heard with much sorrow of the death of Brigadier-General Heyworth, CB, DSO, who was killed in action in France on May 9th. We all remember him both in appearance and in reality as he was a fine type of an officer and gentleman during the time that he was in command of the Brigade here.”
It is presumed that Brigadier-General Heyworth commanded one of the units which had mobilised at, or had passed through Abbots Langley at some point earlier in the War.
Frederick Heyworth was born at Clifton, Gloucestershire on 25th March 1863, and entered the Scots Guards on 5th December 1883. He had served in the Sudan and the South African War. In 1913 he married Violet Hatfield-Harter and the couple lived at Biddlesden Park, Brackley.
He was killed in action at Ypres on 9th May 1916, shot through the head on his way up to the Front Line by a German sniper. Brigadier General Frederick Heyworth was buried at
Brandhoek Military Cemetery (near Vlamertinghe, Ypres).
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
