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L/Cpl. Frederick Thomas French

British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment

from:Newton, Blackwell, Derbyshire

(d.30th October 1917)

Born in 1888, Fred French was the eldest child of George and Alice Ellen French of Ashbourne Derbyshire. In 1915 he married Mary Dransfield Beeston in Kirk Ireton. Fred had moved to Newton for employment as a green grocer before 1915. Fred and Mary had a daughter Kathleen, born in 1916, just a few weeks before Fred was posted to his regiment and shipped to France.

Fred enlisted at Tibshelf in July 1915 with the 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment and entered France in December 1916. Wounded in July 1917, he was promoted to Lance Corporal on 1st October 1917, having been put in charge of a Lewis Gun. He was killed in action just 29 days later on 30th October 1917.



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