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206623Rfm. Frederick William London
British Army 3rd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:St Pancras, London
(d.4th May 1915)
Unfortunately not a lot is known from family members as Frederick was killed in Action and no medals or service records remain in our possession. All info comes from military death records and British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards.
Frederick William London was my Great Grandfather, a French Polisher, son of Frederick London a Cabinet Maker from Salibury, Wiltshire. Born in St Pancras, London, in approx 1877 and married in 1899 to Georgina Henrietta Jobe in Christ Church, Somers Town, St Pancras, London.
He enlisted into the 3rd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps from St Pancras, I think in 1914 and would have travelled to Winchester and joined the 80th Brigade in the 27th Division. The 27th Division embarked at Southampton on the 19th - 21st December and disembarked at le Havre between the 20th and 23rd of December. The 27th Division served on the Western Front in France and Belgium until November, 1915. In the following month it embarked for the Macedonian Front, on which it served for the remainder of the War.
From what info I can find and his date of death I think Frederick died in the Second Battle of Ypres 22nd April to the 25th May 1915 possibly the Battle of St Julien. He was 39 years old and left his wife Georgina, daughter Agnes 13 yrs, son George 5 yrs and son Fred 2 yrs. He is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Panels 51 and 53
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