BYRCH Frederick Charles

  • First Name(s):
    Frederick 
    Charles 
  • Surname:
    BYRCH
  • Service Number:
    9894
  • Rank:

    Sergeant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    21st September 1915
  • Age At Death:
    27
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France, Grave M. 27.
  • Place of Birth:
    Cropthorne, Worcestershire, resident Evesham, Worcestershire, enlisted Worcester
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Charles and Rose Ann Birch, 4 New Rd., Great Hampton, Evesham, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

BYRCH Frederick Charles Is Named On These Memorials

Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church as F. Byrch with the additional information: Worc Regt

Further Information About BYRCH Frederick Charles

Additional information on the memorial: Worc Regt

The birth of Charles Frederick Birch is registered in the March Quarter 1889 under the Pershore Registration District.

Appears on the 1891 and the 1901 census’ as Charles F. Birch.
1911 Census
Overseas Military, Bareilly United Provinces, India
Frederick Birch, soldier, age 23, 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, born Cropthorne, Worcestershire.

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 9th October 1915:
Sergt. Birch of Hampton
Sergt. Charles Frederick Birch, of the 1st Worcesters, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Birch, of New-road, Great Hampton, has been killed in France.  Sergt. Birch, who would have been twenty-seven years of age in December next, was unmarried.  Years ago he enlisted in the Worcesters, and after serving seven years with the colours (principally in India and Malta) he went into the reserve.  He was called up when the present war broke out and went to France a little over six months ago.  No official intimation has been sent to his parents, but his young lady, Miss Bessie Halford, who is in service in Evesham, has received a letter, dated September 29, from a corporal at the headquarters of the 1st Worcesters, informing her that Sergt, F, Birch was instantly killed by a shell while in action on September 22.  The writer forwarded to Miss Halford Sergt. Birch’s watch and a few photographs and letters (including a postcard from Mrs Princep) which were found upon him, and said that a cross had been erected over his grave in the cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. Birch’s eldest son, William Henry Birch, is on service in France with the Veterinary Corps; and Mrs’ Birch’s step-son, Harry Stephens, is with the machine gun section of the 8th Worcesters.

Frederick was the son of Charles and Rose Ann Birch (nee Stephens) who were married in 1877.

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.  The name of Alfred Bowell is inscribed on one of the bells, his granddaughter is currently a bell ringer at the church.

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Credits: Evesham Journal and parents details researched and transcribed by Peter Stewart. Inscriptions on the church clock and the church bells courtesy of John Smith.