Frederick Havelock Peters Tregidgo
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Frederick Havelock Peters Tregidgo was the son of the late Thomas Henry Pitt Tregidgo a cooper and & Sarah Jane Tregidgo née Tregaskis .
His father Thomas Henry Pitt was born in 1848 at Falmouth he died in 1903 at Falmouth he was 55 yrs, his mother Sarah Jane Tregaskis was born in 1853 at Feock, Cornwall they were married in 1872 at Falmouth, they went on to have 10 children, sadly two were to die in infancy or early childhood.
In the 1911 census hsi widowed mother Sarah Jane 55 yrs a charwoman is living at 55 Barrett Street, Falmouth with two of her grandchildren.
Frederick Haveleock married Mary Ann Bryan whom he had married in the Newark Registration area on 30th November 1915 at Christchurch, Newark. She lived at South Muskam Nottinghamshire and had formerly resided on Tolney Lane in Newark. They had met whilst Fred was amongst thousands of Royal Engineers training near Newark.
Commencing 12th February 1917 his widow was awarded a pension of 10 shillings a week.
Pioneer Frederick Tregidgo enlisted at Falmouth , he gave his place of birth as Falmouth but was resident in Coddington He was killed on 29th July 1916 near Bazentin- Le- Petit building strong points under fire in front of the village in darkness 200 yards from enemy trenches.
He has no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.
He is also commemorated on the WWI memorial in Falmouth
No 3 and 4 Sections of the 82nd Field Company RE, working under the 57th Brigade (19th Division) was engaged in vital work, building strong points in front of Bazentin le Petit village during the night of the 29th/30th July. The infantry assisting the section was withdrawn to prepare for an attack next day, but the sappers volunteered to go on under “a hellish storm of H.E. and machine gun fire”. Six were killed and nineteen of the forty were wounded – with three more killed at the same work on the next day. Before 82 FC left the area, Captn Butterworth marked the spot and wrote to the men’s families. He returned in 1917 with an engraved stone, incorporated with local bricks into a memorial 'To Nine Brave Men' at the Pozieres-Martinpuich crossroads, Bazetin-le-Petit, Somme.
Source: The Muskhams, Little Carlton and Bathley in the Great War, Published 2014 by the Bathley History Society (Courtesy of Trevor Frecknall)
Photo of Frederick Havelock Peters Tregidgo
Thiepval Memorial,