Private 31975 Frederick Ernest PITCHFORD

Private 31975 Frederick Ernest Pitchford{gallery}Pte F E Pitchford{/gallery}1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
Killed in action during the Hundred Days Offensive, France and Flanders, 24th September 1918, aged 18

• Buried: Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Ext, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave II.H.27
  
• Awarded British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Noah and Florence Pitchford [nee Clarke] of 138 Elmsdale Avenue, Foleshill
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Pitchford
• Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Ext
• Devonshire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Oct Qtr 1899 and baptised 3 Jan 1900 at Dawley, Shropshire
  
• Lived at King’s Street, Dawley [1901]
  
• Living at 23 Stanley Street, Nuneaton [1911]
• Frederick was a schoolboy in 1911
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton