COLE Frederick Godfrey

  • First Name(s):
    Frederick 
    Godfrey 
  • Surname:
    COLE
  • Service Number:
    16502
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st Battalion
  • Unit:
    C Company
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    30th November 1915
  • Age At Death:
    19
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France, Grave I. E. 38.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Henry and Annie Sophia Cole, 74 Pershore Road, Hampton, Evesham, Worcestershire

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COLE Frederick Godfrey Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

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

Further Information About COLE Frederick Godfrey

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 12th December 1915:
Pte. Fred Cole
The first portrait we give this week is that of Pte. Fred Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cole, of Pershore-road, Great Hampton, and formerly of Briar Close, Evesham, who died in hospital in France on November 27.  We reported last week that Pte. Cole was very seriously wounded and on Saturday Mrs. Cole had the mournful information that her son had passed away.  The Sister in charge of No 8 Casualty Clearing Station of the British Expeditionary Force, writing on November 30th says:- “I am sorry to have to send you a very sad piece of news about your son, Pte. F. Cole, 1st Worcester Regiment.  He was admitted to this hospital on the 27th very seriously wounded in the head and both legs. Everything possible was done for him, but his condition was too serious to permit his recovery, and he passed away at 4.10 a.m. this morning.  I told him yesterday I was going to write to you and he said ‘send my love’ but that was all he said.  He will be buried tomorrow by our Church of England Chaplain, Canon Adderley, in the little cemetery here, where many of our brave soldiers lie.”  Pte. Cole, who was nineteen years of age, was a single man.  He joined the army in September, 1914 and went out to France in March last. Prior to joining the Army he was employed on the Abbey Manor Farm.  He was a steady young fellow and much liked by all who knew him.  Pte. Cole’s father who is the youngest son of the late Mr George Cole by his first wife, joined Kitchener’s Army about a year ago.

(Frederick was the son of Henry and Ann Sophia Cole (nee Stanley) who were married in 1890).

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”.

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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.