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In Memory of FREDERICK PILKINGTON
Private
14800
4th Bn., The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
who died on
Tuesday 16 April 1918.
Additional Information:
14800 Private, 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Kings (Liverpool) Regiment. 98th Brigade, 33rd Division. Killed in action during the Flanders Offensive on Tuesday 16 April 1918. He was born in Warwick, he resided in Barford and he enlisted in Southport, Lancashire. He arrived in France on Saturday 24 July 1915. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. He is also commemorated on a Memorial Screen, St. Peter’s Church, Barford. Holder of 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Cemetery:
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL Comines-Wanieton, Hainaut, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 3
Location:
The Ploegsteert Memorial stands in Berks Cemetery Extension, which is
located 12.5 kilometres south of Ypres town centre, on the N365 leading
from Ypres to Mesen (Messines), Ploegsteert and on to Armentieres. From
Ypres town centre the Rijselsestraat runs from the market square, through
the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and directly over the crossroads with the
Ypres ring road. The road name then changes to the Ruselseweg (N336).
3.5 kilometres
along the N336 lies a fork junction with the N365.
The N365, which forms the right hand fork, leads to the town of Mesen.
The Cemetery lies 3 kilometres beyond Mesen on the right hand side of the
N365, and opposite Hyde Park Corner Royal Berks Cemetery. The sounding of
the Last Post takes place at the Ploegsteert Memorial on the first Friday
of every month at 7 p.m.
The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated
to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded
as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within
their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction
to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within
the quoted Panels.
Historical Information:
The PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of
the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during
the First World War and have no known grave.
The memorial serves the area
from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton to the north, to Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes
to the south, includ-ing the towns of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and
Armentieres, the Forest of Nieppe, and Ploegsteert Wood. The original intention
had been to erect the memorial in Lille.
Those commemorated by the memorial
did not die in major offensives, such as those which took place around
Ypres to the north, or Loos to the south. Most were killed in the course
of the
day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line,
or in small scale set engagements, usually carried out in support of
the major
attacks taking place elsewhere.
BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, in which the memorial
stands, was begun in June 1916 and used continuously until September
1917.
At the Armistice, the extension comprised Plot I only, but Plots II
and
III were added in 1930 when graves were brought in from Rosenberg Chateau
Military Cemetery and Extension, about 1 kilometre to the north-west,
when it was established that these sites could not be acquired in perpetuity.
Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery was used by fighting units from November
1914 to August 1916.
The extension was begun in May 1916 and used until
March 1918.
Together, the Rosenberg Chateau cemetery and extension were
sometimes referred to as ‘Red Lodge’. Berks Cemetery Extension
now contains 876 First World War burials.
HYDE PARK CORNER (ROYAL BERKS)
CEMETERY is separated from Berks Cemetery Extension by a road. It was
begun in April 1915 by the 1st~4th Royal Berkshire Regiment and was used
at intervals
until November 1917. Hyde Park Corner was a road junction to the north
of Ploegsteert Wood. Hill 63 was to the north-west and nearby were the ‘Catacombs’,
deep shelters capable of holding two battalions, which were used from
Novem-ber 1916 onwards. The cemetery contains 83 Commonwealth burials of
the First
World War and four German war graves. The cemetery, cemetery extension
and memorial were designed by H Chalton Bradshaw, with sculpture by Gilbert
Ledward.
Regiment, Corps etc.
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King’s (Liverpool
Regiment) |
Battalion/etc.
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4th Battalion. |
Surname |
PILKINGTON |
Christian Name(s) |
Frederick |
Born |
Warwick |
Enlisted |
Southport, Lancs |
Residence |
Barford |
Died Date |
16/04/18 |
Rank |
PRIVATE |
Number |
14800 |
Died How |
Killed in action |
Theatre of War |
France & Flanders |
Supplementary notes |
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