FRADLEY, WILLIAM
Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser
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Uttoxeter Advertiser |
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When born |
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Address |
39, John Street, Uttoxeter |
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Employment Before Joining up |
Farm work at Loxley Hall |
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Where enlisted |
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Regiment & Unit |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve - HMS 'Vivid' |
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Rank |
Ordinary Seaman |
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Service Number |
Bristol Z/10905 |
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Date of Death |
23 April 1918 |
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Age at time of death |
18 |
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Where Killed or died |
England – Borough Hospital, Plymouth |
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How he died |
Illness – complications from Scarlet Fever |
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Location of Grave or Memorial |
Uttoxeter Cemetery - Grave Old. 2. 113. |
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Verified by making a visit. |
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There is no entry for William Fradley in the ‘Soldiers Died in the Great War’ database.
His mother was Mrs. Jane Priscilla Fradley, of 39, John St., Uttoxeter.
Before the war William Fradley was engaged in farm work at Loxley Hall.
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Loxley Hall and the surrounding area, photographed in 2006. |
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He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 19th September 1917, and as he was too young for service abroad he served with HMS 'Vivid' (the name of the Devonport Barracks).
On 24th April 1918 it was reported in the Uttoxeter Advertiser that his mother had been telegraphed and told to go to see him because he was lying seriously ill with complications from Scarlet Fever at the Borough Hospital, Plymouth. She managed to get there in time to see him, but he died the day after she got there.
Seaman Fradley, who at the time of joining the navy was employed in farm work at Loxley Hall, was a bright, good-humoured lad, and his death at the early age of 18 was ‘much deplored’.
Members of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, with band, accompanied his body to Millbay Station and his coffin was drawn by ‘bluejackets’ (convalescent soldiers).
His funeral took place at Uttoxeter Cemetery, attended by a detachment of local Volunteers and a number of soldiers who were at home on leave.