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France after 1st January 1916. The 2/5th Battalion was disbanded in France on 3rd February 1918 when the British Army was reorganised. Fred is believed to have been transferred to the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment at this time when they became part of the 39th Division, 118th Brigade.
On 15th April 1918, the day Fred was killed, the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment was involved in the defence of Crucifix Hill and on that day the 4th Lincolnshire had 12 other ranks killed, 120 wounded and 170 missing.
Some of the above details of Fred's military career are, of necessity, assumed and have been pieced together from the research stated at the beginning and in the absence of direct evidence of Fred's actual career. Details may be changed if and when actual or better evidence is discovered.
Malcolm Webb
November 2010
FOOTNOTE
The PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL records the names of 11,447 men who fell in the battles of Armentieres and Aubers Ridge (1914), Loos and Fromelles (1915), Estaires (1916) and Hazebrouck, Scherpenberg and Outtersteene Ridge (1918) and who have no known grave. The memorial is adjacent to the Berks Cemetery Extension and is located on the N365 between Armentieres and Ypres, approx 12km south of Ypres. It was unveiled on 7th June 1931. Those commemorated by the memorial did not die in major offensives, such as those which took place around Ypres to the north, or Loos to the south. Most were killed in the course of the day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line, or in small scale set engagements, usually carried out in support of the major attacks taking place elsewhere.
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