Name
Frederick Gillies Payne
7/11/1865
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/07/1918
53
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
V/44078
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
Plot A, Row 2, Grave 151.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of the late Sir Salusbury Gillies and Dame Catherine/ Katherine Ann (nee Chadwick) PAYNE; husband of Mabel (nee OAKES) PAYNE.
His parents married 2 February 1858 at St Mary’s, Prestwich, Lancs. Salusbury died 10 December 1893 at Cavendish Square, Middx, aged 64; Catherine died 7 December 1902 in Torquay, Devon, aged 65.
Frederick was born 7 November 1864(*1) in Sharnbrook, Beds, and baptised 15 December 1864 at St Peter’s, Sharnbrook. He married 14 October 1897 at Christ Church, Southgate, Middx; they had two children. He was buried 13 July.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1871 Census, aged 6 he lived in Sharnbrook, with his father and three siblings. On the 1881 Census, a scholar aged 16, he was a boarder at Rugby School, Warks. On the 1891 Census, he was in America. On the 1901 Census, a manufacturer of folding cardboard boxes aged 36, he lived in Watford, with his wife and no children. On the 1911 Census, a director of a folding cardboard box company aged 46, he still lived in Watford, with his wife and two children.
Wartime Service
He has no medals, and died at the V.A.D. Hospital, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.
Additional Information
Frederick is buried in the family grave (not CWGC) and his headstone bears the inscription:
FREDERICK GILLIES PAYNE
FOURTH SON OF THE LATE
SIR SALUSBURY PAYNE BAPT OF BLUNHAMBORN NOV. 7TH 1865
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE JULY 10TH 1918
FOURTH SON OF THE LATE
SIR SALUSBURY PAYNE BAPT OF BLUNHAMBORN NOV. 7TH 1865
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE JULY 10TH 1918
*1 his headstone records 1865.
There is a Death announcement for Frederick in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 13 July 1918; plus articles about him in the issues dated 20 July 1918 and 28 December 1918.
Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
