Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Soissons Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After June 1917	~	Harbury
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted Date	Other War Memorials
Third Battle of the Aisne	June 1917 Warwick	~
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
near Concevreux	Private 26619 Royal Warwickshire

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Late on the 26th May 1918 the Battalion began to move towards Muscourt in anticipation of a suspected German attack with turned out to be the start of the Third Battle of the Ainse. At 3.00am they arrived at Muscourt and by then the German bombardment had already begun. At 8.30am the 3rd Battalion was placed at the disposal of the 50th Division. At 9.15am, Batt moved up to Concevreux and took up positions with A and B Coys covering the bridgehead. C Coy formed a defensive flank and crossed the canal at Pontavert, moving in a south westerly direction. At 2.30pm the enemy broke through the Batt on our left and worked behind 3 Front Line Coys and got into Concevreux. After heavy casualties Batt managed to withdraw and get to higher ground south of Cioncevreux but in the fighting some men went too far left and lost the Batt. At 10pm Batt had to withdraw to south west of Ventelay. Capt. EA Humphries, 2nd Lt EV Matthews, 2Lt RO Goolden and Lt WBJ Wall were all missing and Capt. T Grant was wounded.

Frederick was killed during the German attack.