Name
Frederick James Harrison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
240136
Bedfordshire Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Harrison was born in 1875 at Aldershot. At the time of the 1911 Census he was living with his wife, Susan, and children Marjorie and Stanley, at 6 Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley. Frederick worked as an Imbecile Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum. His children were born at Leavesden in 1904 and 1905 respectively which indicated that he had moved to the area around that time.
He was listed in the Asylum Roll of Honour which was published in the Hertfordshire Advertiser on 12th December 1914, and was also recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in December 1914, and shown serving with the Hertfordshire Territorials.
It was probably at some time in 1916 that he joined up with the 68th Provisional Battalion. Provisional Battalions were formed from men serving with Territorial units who were either medically unfit for Service, or who had not taken the Imperial Service Obligation indicating that they were prepared to serve overseas.
During 1917 Frederick was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment, and served with that unit through to the end of the War. He was recorded in the Absent Voter Records of Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, where he was listed as a Company Sergeant Major, serving with the 11th Bedfordshire’s and living at Garden Road, Abbots Langley.
Frederick Harrison survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 68th Provisional Battalion & 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
