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Rifleman

Frederick Ingall

Service number 41372
Military unit 13th Bn Royal Irish Rifles
Address Mapperley, Nottingham
Date of birth
Date of death 01 Nov 1916 (Age unknown)
Place of birth Mapperley
Employment, education or hobbies

1901 - baker
1911 - coal mining corporal (underground labourer),

Family history

Frederick was the son of Frederick and Rebecca/Rebeckah Ingall (née Siggee).

His father Frederick was born in Little Hale, Lincolnshire, in about 1856 and his mother Rebecca in Upwell, Cambridgeshire, in about 1858, the daughter of Richard and Elinor Siggee.

Frederick and Rebecca were married in 1879 (reg. AMJ Sleaford) and had nine children, one of whom died in infancy: Mary Emma b. 1880 (AMJ), William b. 1881 (AMJ) d. 1882 (JAS Nottm.) and Richard b. 1882 (AMJ) who were born in Little Hale (reg. Sleaford), and Eleanor birth registered 1884 (JFM), Rebecca b. 1885 (OND), Frederick b. 1887 (OND), May b. 1890 (AMJ), Rosa b. 1892 (AMJ) and Alice b. 1893 (JAS) who were born in Nottingham.

Frederick (25), an agricultural labourer, and Rebecca were living in Little Hale, Sleaford, in 1881 with their two children Mary (1) and William (u/1y). Their third child, Richard, was born in Little Hale the following year (reg. AMJ 1882) but soon after his birth the family moved to Nottingham where the couple's infant son William died before the year end (reg. JAS).

Frederick, a wheelwright, and his wife were living at at 766 Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Nottingham, in 1891. Also in the household were their seven children: Mary (11), Richard (8) and Eleanor (7), Rebecca (5), Frederick (3), Annie (2) and May (u/1) who had been born in Mapperley. Two daughters, Rosa and Alice, were then born between 1892 and 1893.

Frederick snr. died in January 1894 aged 38, home address Eaton Street. He was buried in Nottingham St Catherine churchyard on 27 January

His widow Rebecca married Charles Hanford, who was probably a widower, in 1897. In 1901 she and Charles (63 b. Stanton, Derbyshire), a general labourer, were living at 788 Woodborough Road with five of Rebecca's children: Richard a sugar boiler, Frederick a baker, and May, Rosa and Alice who were school age.

Rebecca and Charles (73), now retired ('OAP'), were living at 31 Eaton Street, Mapperley, in 1911. In the home on the night of the census were Rebecca's widowed mother, Eleanor Siggee (75 d. 1918), and three of Rebecca's daughters, May and Rosa, who were both laundresses, and Alice, a frilling machinist for a blouse manufacturer. There was also a fosterchild, George Waterfield (6).

Charles Hanford died later that year (AMJ) aged 63 and his widow Rebecca married Arthur Ridgard in 1917 (OND).

Rebecca and Arthur Ridgard were living at 792 Woodborough Road in 1921 together with her daughters May (31), a chemist's assistant (Boots the Chemist), and Alice Selby and her husband Leonard, a gardener (own account), who had married in 1920.

Rebecca Ridgard died in June 1923 aged 65 and was buried in Redhill Cemetery, Arnold, Nottingham.

Of Frederick and Rebecca's children:

Mary Emma married George Penn (b. Ambrosden Oxon) in 1899 (JAS Nottm.). He was a former soldier having joined the 16th Lancers (3213) at the age of 18 in 1890. In 1901 George, a carter (brickworks), and Mary were living on Bennet Street, St Ann's with their daughter Winifred Audrey, 5m). They had moved to 21 Gladstone Terrace, Hyson Green by 1911; George was now working as a brewer's labourer (G Hooley, brewery). The couple had had eight children but three had died in infancy or early childhood. Their surviving children were Winifred, Constance May (7), Frederic James (4), George Stanley (3) and William Ingall (6m). Mary Emma and George Penn have not yet been traced after 1911.

Richard, a ship's steward (White Star Line), was recorded on the 1911 Census at Park Avenue, Fazkerley, Liverpool, a visitor in the home of his married sister, Eleanor Hartley, and her husband William. Richard was living with his mother at 792 Woodborough Road when he enlisted in 1915 in the Royal Army Service Corps and was demobilized on 1 July 1919. He married Annie Froggatt at Daybrook parish church in 1918 (JFM) and they were living at 28 Southwark Road, Basford, at the time of his death on 19 December 1920. Richard was buried in Redhill Cemetery, Arnold, Nottingham. (See 'Extra information'). His widow Annie was living with her parents, Eli and Harriet Froggatt, at 28 Southwark Street in 1921. She married in 1925 Charles Frederick Pendleton, a widower (m. Jessie Maria Mallett 1898, d. Nov. 1918). in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, Annie Pendleton and her husband were living on Clarges Street, Nottingham, with three of his four children. Annie died in March 1955 and was buried in Northern Cemetery, Bulwell; she was survived by her husband Charles (d. 1968).

Eleanor married William Hartley in 1903 (OND Nottm.) and was living in Fazkerely, Liverpool, in 1911 with their three sons, Norman (6), William (5) and John (2m) who were all born in Liverpool. William snr. was a dairyman (own account). Eleanor and William, a retired coal merchant, were still living in Liverpool in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled. Also in the home were their son Norman, a coal merchant, and Eleanor's widowed sister, Rosa Woodcock. Eleanor died in 1976 (JFM reg. Liverpool). Her sister Rosa Woodcock died a few months later (JAS Fleetwood Lancs).

Rebecca married Fred Plant in 1910 (AMJ). Fred (42 b. Highgate London), a house painter, Rebecca and their son Ronald Frederick (1m), were living on Glengall Road, Kilburn, London in 1911. Rebecca died in 1933 (reg. JAS Hendon Middx).

Frederick, a miner, married Elizabeth Jane [Jane Elizabeth] Pemberton at Sutton in Ashfield St Mary in August 1907. In 1911 Frederick (23), a coal mining corporal (underground labourer), and his his wife were living at 4 Hastings Street, Carlton Hill, Nottingham, with her illegitimate daughter, Jessica Pemberton (b. 1907 AMJ Nottm). In 1921 his widow and daughter Jessica, 'father dead', were living at 10 Eaton Terrace, Easton Street, Nottingham. Jessie Ingall (sic) married Leonard Brownlow (b. 1910) in 1932 and in 1939 Leonard, a plumber and ARP warden, Jessie (b. April 1907) and her widowed mother, Jane E Ingall, were living on Moore Road, Carlton.

May has not yet been traced after 1921 when she was living with her mother Rebecca and stepfather Charles Hanford at 792 Woodborough Road.

Rosa married John George Woodcock in 1917 (JAS Nottm.). John served in the Royal Field Artillery and died in France from pneumonia in 1919. (See 'Extra information'). Rosa did not remarry and in 1939 she was living in Liverpool with her married sister, Eleanor Hartley. Rosa died in 1976 (JAS Fleetwood Lancs.) a few months after the death of her sister Eleanor.

Alice and her husband Leonard Erasmus Selby (b. 1893), who had been living with her mother in 1921, were recorded on the 1939 England & Wales Register at Sixth Avenue, Liverpool. Leonard's occupation was given as jobbing gardener. Alice died in October 1981 (reg. Nottm.); her husband had predeceased her (1967 reg. Blackpool).

Military history

Frederick enlisted in Nottingham and was posted to the Sherwood Foresters (19607 Private).

He served in Gallipoli from 30 September 1915 and was probably transferred to 13th Royal Irish Rifles in August 1916 when a number of men were also transferred to the regiment.

Frederick died of wounds (suffered accidentally, no other information available), on 1 November 1916, probably at a Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck, France, and was buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery (grave I.B.3).

Frederick qualified for the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

CWGC history of Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery (extract): The town of Hazebrouck is about 56km south-east of Calais. 'From October 1914 to September 1917, casualty clearing stations were posted at Hazebrouck. The Germans shelled and bombed the town between September 1917 and September 1918 making it unsafe for hospitals, but in September and October 1918, No.9 British Red Cross Hospital was stationed there. Commonwealth burials began in the communal cemetery in October 1914 and continued until July 1918. At first, they were made among the civilian graves, but after the Armistice these earlier burials were moved into the main Commonwealth enclosure.' (www.cwgc.org)

Extra information

His brother Richard served in the war in the Motor Transport Section, Army Service Corps. He was demobilized on 1 July 1919; his service record shows that he was suffering from diabetes. Richard died of a heart attack on 19 December 1920. (See record on this Roll of Honour)

Their brother-in-law, John George Woodcock, their sister Rosa's husband, served with the 106th Brigade Royal Field Artillery (232801 Gunner) and died from pneumonia at 51st Casualty Clearing Station, France, on 17 February 1919. (See record on this Roll of Honour)

Their sister Mary Emma's husband, George Penn, a former soldier, served in the RAF during the war (194078). No further details of his service are presently available although the record gave his age as 45 (b. June 1873) and he may not have enlisted until 1 April 1918 when the RAF was established.

Frederick had previously served at Gallipoli, landing there as a reinforcement to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) on 30 September 1915. He witnessed Lord Kitchener's visit to the peninsula and a letter he wrote home following this event was published in the Nottingham Weekly Express, 10 December 1915:

'I have often wondered what foreign lands were like, but, oh dear! Give me England! Things are just the same here as they were thousands of years ago. Everything is carried on donkeys – no carts; and in the villages there is no attempt at sanitation.

'So far things are passable out here. Of course, things are a trifle rough, but we must expect that. One chap mentioned butter the other day, and I had to scratch my head and wonder for a minute. I have some faint recollection of it. We get plenty of jam and bully-beef. Just now we are doing very well for bread; in fact, there is very little to grumble anyhow.

'I saw here to-day that I only saw once all the time I was at Lichfield, but I knew him again in a minute. It was Lord Kitchener; you see I am not the only big man about these parts. Joking apart, the great soldier seems to have a look on his face that indicates something going to happen. I was surprised to see him here. There is something in the wind, and we may expect to see things go with a rush.

'I can’t tell you anything about the war, I never mention it, then I keep clear of the censor’s big blue pencil. While I have been writing this I have got two letters from home, so the most cheerful man in this tent is, yours sincerely, F. Ingall.'

Nottingham Evening Post, 18 November 1916:

'Ingall. Died of wounds, November 1st, Rfn. F. Ingall, beloved husband of Lizzie Ingall, of Mapperley, aged 29. Till we meet again. From his sorrowing wife and child.'

'Ingall. Died of wounds, November 1st, Rfn. Frederick Ingall, aged 29, beloved son of Rebecca and the late Frederick Ingall, of Mapperley. Peace, perfect peace. Mother, sisters, and only brother (in France).'

Above courtesy Jim Grundy facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918

Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Deaths’, 20 December 1920: ‘Ingall. On the 19th inst. Richard, eldest son of Rebecca and the late Frederic Ingall, of Mapperley, aged 38. Also in memory of Frederic, youngest son of above, died in France, November 1st 1916, aged 28. Safe in the Father’s Home above.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)

WW1 Pension Ledgers: named his widow Jane Elizabeth (sic) Ingall and child, Jessie Pemberton.

Original research John Morse. Additional research & record revised/updated, RF (Oct. 2026)

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