MUNSLOW Frederick George

Frederick George Munslow was born in Worcester in 1897, the son of George Henry and Emily Munslow (nee Hall) who had married in 1895. In 1901 he is living with his grandparents Henry and Mary Hall and their family in Castle Place, Worcester. Henry’s daughter Alice who apparently adopted Frederick at some point was aged 26 and still living at home. By 1911 Alice, aged 37 and single, was working as a housekeeper for a widowed businessman and his family at a house in Lansdowne Road, Worcester. Fourteen year old Frederick is shown as a visitor to the house. He enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment in 1915, arriving in France on 13th July 1915. He was killed in action less than a year later.

The following report appears in Berrow’s Worcester Journal, 17th June 1916:
ONE OF A FIGHTING FAMILY
News has been received by Mrs Munslow, of 16, St Paul’s Walk, that her eldest son, Private F.G. Munslow, of the Worcestershires, has been killed in action. Pte. Munslow, who was only 19, joined the Worcestershire Regiment in January, 1915, and went out to the front the following August. He has been wounded twice, the last time being at Easter. He went back to duty in May. His father, Bombardier G.H. Munslow, of the R.F.A., has been out at the front for 14 months. His younger son is serving as a driver in the A.S.C.

A photograph of Private F.G. Munslow can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 17th June 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.