Private Frederick Hastings WINGROVE, 240125, (1309), 1st / 5th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died as a Prisoner of War, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, death presumed between 29th April 1916 & 21st December 1916, age 21.

22nd August 1895, born Hastings, Sussex, son of #Leonard George  & *Fanny Eliza Wingrove. 1895 December, Hastings Registration District, Leonard George Wingrove married Fanny Eliza Thomas.

Educated Chatham, Kent.

# Leonard George Wingrove, died 1918m New York, USA.

1909 September, Sheppey Registration District, *Fanny Eliza Wingrove, married  Frederick C  Williams, Chief Gunner, RN, daughter of the late Richard Henry Thomas), of 20A Old Road, Chatham, Kent / 3, Ordance Terrace, Chatham, Kent.

1911 Census - 2 Boundary Road, Chatham, Kent - Fanny Eliza Williams, head / wife, age 39, married 10 years, 3children, all still alive, born Portsmouth; Frederick Hastings Wingrove, son, age 15, single, house painter apprentice, house decorator, worker, born Hastings, Sussex; Leonard Guy Lewes Wingrove, son, age 14, outfitters tailor apprentice, tailor, worker, born Lewes Sussex; Lionel Frederick Wingrove, son, age 8, scholar, born Bow, London; Mary Ann Thomas, mother, age 73, widow, born Basinstoke; Earnest William Vine, boarder, age 27, grocers traveller, worker, born Walden, Sussex.

Keen sportsman; acted as Secretary of the Corinthian Football Club,  Chatham, Kent.

Enlisted Chatham, Kent. Formerly decorators apprentice.

1911, Joined the Territorials; August 1914, mobilized on the outbreak of war; 25th October 1914, left for India; 26th August1915, volunteered for service in the Persian Gulf, being with General Townshend's force during the Siege of Kut; 29th April 1916, taken Prison of War at Kut Al Amara.

Buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Tarsus, Asia Minor.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. P. 31., Iraq.

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