237801 CQMS Frederick Vincent Ashforth British Army 1/8th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment from:Leeds (d.21st April 1918) Frederick Vincent Ashforth, born 1884, is my second cousin twice removed. He was born in Sheffield, the last of three boys and his father died when Frederick was about two years old. His two older brothers died at ages 2 years and 10 months and the other at age 10. Frederick's mother married again in 1889 and she and her new husband moved to the Leeds area of Yorkshire.
Frederick married Hannah Binks in 1909 and then when war broke out he enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment {Prince of Wales Own). He was made Company Quarter Master Sergeant in the 8th Battalion. He fought in France, dying at the age of 34 and is buried at Bienvillers Military Cemetery.
I have no photo, no papers except the certificate which one can download from the War Graves Commission website. Frederick and Hannah appear to not have any children, and on the certificate she shows her living place as Morecambe in Lancashire. However, I do have a photo where his name has been added to his father's and brothers' headstone in the City Road Cemetery in Sheffield.
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