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Pte. Frederick Street
British Army 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
(d.23rd June 1917)
Frederick Street attested under the Derby Scheme and was mobilised on the 30th of March 1916, on the 4th of April 1916 he was posted to the 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment from which he was transferred on the 14th of April to the 2/5th KOSB and renumbered as private 5078.
On the 14th of January he was disembarked in France and on the 15th of January he was at the 21st Infantry Base in Etaples, France, on the 5th of February he transferred to the HLI and was renumbered as Private 41944 and posted to the 12th Battalion who on the 8th of April were in field, Frederick was wounded on the 9th at the beginning of the Arras Offensive at the First Battle of the Scarpe.
Frederick was sent to Govan Hospital where he died on the 23rd of June 1917 in the presence of his sister, he was buried with full military honours at Belper Cemetery.
