Frederick Gidley 1884 - 1917

Frederick Gidley was a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. He died of wounds on July 25, 1917.
Frederick was born in 1884 in East Stonehouse, Plymouth, the seventh child of the thirteen children born to Thomas Gidley, born in Dean Prior, and his wife, Elizabeth nee Branch. Thomas was variously a carrier, a clerk to a coal merchant, and a foreman. In 1911 his son Frederick was a grocery warehouseman at the Plymouth Co-operative Society, living in 210 Beaumont Road, Plymouth. In April 1909 he had married Edith Marion Rockey at St Peter's, Plymouth. They had no children. Edith remarried in 1920.
Few details exist of Frederick's Army service. He was probably conscripted in 1916, as he was awarded the British and the Victory medals, and not the 1915 Star.
He is buried in the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, just south of Ypres, pictured above.
Sadly, just six weeks later Frederick's's older brother Thomas was also killed.