The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal O Frick

Lance Corporal Oscar FRICK, G/2972, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached Connaught Rangers), died from disease, ectonic fever, at Base General Hospital, Amara, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 8th July 1916.

Born Camden Town, London, NW, son of August & Annie Sophia Frick, Royal Mount Ephraim Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / Hotel Great Central, Marylebone.

1911 Census - Hotel Russell, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, WC - Augustus Frick, head, age 38, married, Hotel Manager, Hotel Company, born Switzerland; Anna Frick, wife, age 37, married 18 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Kennington, London; Oscar A Frick, son, age 16, student, born Camden Town, London; Bertha Frick, daughter, age 14, at school, born Germany; numerous other staff plus guests.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 21 years & 102 days, height 5ft 5 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair. Resided Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly clerk.

Home 9th September 1914 to 9th December 1915; IEF 10th December 1915 to 8th July 1916.

9th September 1914, enlisted; 14th September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th September 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th October 1914, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th September 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 10th December 1915, posted India Expeditionary Force & 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th June 1916, Basra, dangerously ill, heat exhaustion.

21st July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, *A Frick, Hotel Great Central, London, W1; Mother, A S Frick, Hotel Great Central, London, W1; Brothers - Jack Frick, age 19, Hotel Great Central, London, W1; Edward Frick, age 13, Hotel Great Central, London, W1; Sister - Betty Frick, age 22, Hotel Great Central, London, W1.

* Hotel Manager.

Buried at Amara War Cemetery, IX. H. 4., Iraq.

NOTE from CWGC - In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it.

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