SANBROOKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM

 

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

 

 

 

 

 

Where born

Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

Yes

 

 

2

When born

About 1890

 

 

 

4

Address

Smithfield Road (self and wife)

 

 

1a

 

101 Smithfield Road, Uttoxeter

 

 

 

2

5, James Street, Uttoxeter (wife)

Yes

 

 

2

Spouse

Mrs. Ada Elizabeth Sanbrooke

Yes

 

 

2

Children

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Before Joining up

 

 

 

 

 

Where enlisted

 

 

 

 

 

Regiment

North Staffordshire Regiment (upon enlistment)

 

 

 

 

Royal Army Service Corps (at the time of his death)

Yes

 

1a, 1b

 

Army Service Corps

 

 

 

2

Unit

 

 

 

 

 

Rank

Driver

Yes

 

1b

2

 

Private (WRONG)

 

 

1a

 

Service Number

T4/086103

Yes

 

 

2

Date of Death

14 August 1920

Yes

 

 

 

Age at time of death

30

Yes

 

 

 

Where Killed or died

Cannock Chase Military Hospital, England

 

 

1b

 

How he died

 

 

 

 

 

Location of Grave or Memorial

Uttoxeter Cemetery

Grave New. I. 851

Yes

 

 

2, 5

Uttoxeter Town War Memorial

 

 

 

2

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frederick William Sanbrooke was the husband of Ada Elizabeth Sanbrooke, of 5, James Street, Uttoxeter[2].

He had enlisted in the North Staffordshire Regiment by 14th April 1915, when the Uttoxeter Advertiser reported the fact that he was serving.

On the 9th of January 1918 the Uttoxeter Advertiser[1c] reported that he was at home on leave from the Western Front.

On the 10th July 1918 the Uttoxeter Advertiser[1a] reported that he had been brought from France to a hospital in Leicester.

He died at the Cannock Chase Military Hospital on the 14th of August 1920, and his body was brought back to Uttoxeter for burial[1b].

The Uttoxeter Advertiser described his funeral as follows[1b]:

The funeral of Driver Frederick W. Sanbrooke, of the R.A.S.C., who died at Cannock Chase Military Hospital, as recorded in our last issue, took place at Uttoxeter Cemetery on Saturday, the Rev. W. Armstrong conducting the service.

Deceased was accorded full military honours,  a party from Lichfield firing volleys over the grave and the ‘Last Post’ being sounded. The coffin, which was covered with the Union Jack , was born by the deceased’s old Territorial friends.

The mourners were the Widow; Mr. & Mrs. Sanbrooke; Mr. & Mrs. Wheat; Mr. & Mrs. Beckett (sister and brother-in-law); Mr. & Mrs. Mellor (sister and brother-in-law); Brothers Frank, Sam and Len; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (brother and sister-in-law); Misses D. Wheat, A. Strong and G. Beckett; and Messrs. W. Wheat, R. Wheat, and A. Jarvis.

 

 

 

Frederick Sanbrooke’s grave in Uttoxeter Cemetery. The inscription at the base of his headstone reads “Until we meet again”