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Pioneer Frederick Louis Mengham
British Army 312th Road Construction Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Bedhampton, Hants.
(d.28 October 1917)
Frederick was born in 1886 in Bedhampton and married Sarah Jane Williams in 1910. At the beginning of the 1914-18 War he was working in the local brickyard a labourer.
He was called up in early 1917 to serve in the 312th Road Construction Coy., Royal Engineers and embarked for France on 18 February 1917. He was killed near Ypres on 28 October 1917 aged 31. Frederick was buried in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. He left a widow Sarah and a daughter Winifred under two years of age.