Name
Fredrick James Canvin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
12803
Royal Field Artillery
48th Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Fredrick Canvin was one of five brothers from Grove Wharf that served during the Great War. He was born in 1900 at Watford, but more specifically probably at Sarratt as Grove Wharf, at Hunton Bridge was considered part of Sarratt, which in turn was considered part of Watford Rural District. He was one of twelve children born to Albert and Clara Canvin. In the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at Grove Wharf. In 1901 Albert was employed as a Miller’s Carter, and in the 1911 Census he worked as a General Labourer.
Fredrick, together with his four brothers, were not registered in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour until September 1916, however it was likely that more than one of them would have been engaged in War Service from much earlier in the War. Frederick would have only been sixteen in September 1916 so maybe he enlisted under-age.
Fredrick was not recorded in the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour in January 1917, and for the following months, which may have indicated that he was awaiting his eighteenth birthday before being mobilised. However he was recorded in the Roll of Honour from January 1918 through to the end of the War.
He was recorded in the Absent Voters Records for Autumn 1918, Spring 1919, and Autumn 1919, serving as a Driver with the 48th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery. His address was given at Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley.
Fredrick and his four brothers all survived the War, and are also commemorated in the Kings Langley Parish Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
