"Our deepest sympathy go out to Mr & Mrs R Williams of Brooke Farm, on the death of their son Lance-Corporal Fred Williams, of the Third Battalion of the Worcester Regiment. His loss was all the harder to bear as the first account brought news only of a slight wound. Unfortunately, however, Lance-Corporal Williams suffered from gas poisoning, and this infected his wounds and caused his death. The officer in charge of his platoon writes of him as a fine soldier, and very popular with the men of his platoon, and how greatly they were overcome by the news of his death. For nine years the late Lance-Corporal Williams had worked on the staff of Messrs. Howes and Co. timber merchants, Bristol."
Fred was born in
Elberton in October 1888, the youngest of five brothers (William,
Robert, Arthur and Albert) and a sister (Mabel), moving with the family
to Brook Farm, Tytherington in 1914. He was living in Brislington
in Bristol when he joined the 3rd Battalion Worcester Regiment (Regimental number
41409) . He was married with a daughter who was born before he
died but sadly never saw. He died in Flanders on 19th January age 29, is buried
in Etretat in France and remembered on the Tytherington War Memorial.
