Anns, Frederick

Frederick was a pupil at the Merchant Taylors School.   Frederick’s probate record states he was of Redlands, Ashwell, Baldock.

Frederick enlisted in 1914 and  served as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the 4^th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, attached to the 2^nd Battalion 21^st Brigade 7^th Division. He was mobilised on 7 October 1914 and landed at Zeebrugge, in the Western European Theatre of War, France.  Frederick was killed in action in France on 6 November 1915.

Frederick was awarded the 1914/15 Star, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

He is commemorated on the Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France, St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour and the Ashwell War Memorial.

Frederick’s father Thomas was born in Bexley, Kent but Frederick, his mother Mary Ann and his two brothers Thomas and Alexander Emslie were born in Scotland.  Frederick’s war records show Thomas and Mary Anne Anns, of “Brookville,” Hale Lane, Edgware, Middlesex.  His father was a jute or linen merchant in London and his brother Alexander Emslie, who was also in the cloth trade but whose business became bankrupt on 22 July 1907, was Frederick’s sole legatee.