Frederick Masters Service Record

MASTERS Frederick, Private, died 31/08/1918, Aged 40. Enlisted Nottingham, service no.  37786 Leicestershire Regiment, 7th Battalion. Remembered at Vis-En-Artois Memorial. Husband of Annie E. Masters of 6 Hey St. New Sawley Long Eaton Notts. Formerly service no. 04967, R.A.O.C. Born in Henham about 1878, son of George and Susan Masters. The 1881 census shows that they had moved to Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire. His father worked on the railways.

The Battalion diary quotes:
N 14 a AUG31. Brigade conference 10am – 2pm.
The Battalion received orders to attack SUGAR FACTORY N 24 d.
The 6th (Leicesters?) & 1st WILTS were to attack BEAULENCOURT from North.
Zero 2am 1st SEPT. ??? BEAULENCOURT was captured.
The SUGAR FACTORY was not taken.

Thanks to Glyn Warwick for providing details from the battalion war diaries. He is written a book about the fallen heroes of Stansted Mountfitchet, “They Sleep In Heroes Graves” ISBN 978-0-9558964-0-8

 

The data is the editor’s interpretation of documents from the:
The National Archives London, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Ancestry and Find My Past.