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Pte. Frederick Ernest Morant
British Army 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Botley
(d.28th April 1915)
Frederick Morant was born at Boorley Green in 1891, the son of Charles and Emma Morant. Prior to the war Frederick had been a Botley schoolboy and a member of the church choir. Later the family moved to Melrose in Winchester Street, Botley and he was listed as a motor driver in 1911 at Hall Yard, Fair Oak.
Frederick volunteered in the first year of the war and joined the 2nd Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment and served at Gallipoli in the Dardenelles. The British Forces landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25th April 1915. Private Morant was listed as Missing for some weeks before his family were finally advised that he had been
killed in action on 28 April 1915.
He is remembered at the Helles Memorial at Gallipoli, Turkey.