Frederick Ingall

Frederick was born in 1888 at Mapperley, Nottingham and was the son of Frederick a wheelwright and Rebecca Ingall. his siblings were Mary, Eleanor, Rebecca, Frederick, Annie and May. between 1883 and 1884 the family moved to Mapperley, Nottingham. In 1894 Frederick appears to have died because in the 1901 census Rebecca has remarried a Charles Hanford to become Rebecca Hanford. In the 1901 census , Charles Hanford together with his new wife Rebecca are living with her children on Woodoborough Road in Mapperley, Nottingham. By the 1911 census we find Frederick living at 4 Hastings Street, Carlton Hill, Nottingham. He is 23 years of age and a coal mining corporal , he states he has been married three years and is living at the address with his wife Elizabeth Jane Ingnall (nee Pemberton ) and his 3 year old illegitimate daughter Jessica Pemberton.

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Fred enlisted in Nottingham and originally served with service number 19607 in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He entered theatreof war , at Gallipoli on 30/9/1915 and it is likely he was posted to 13th Royal Irish Rifles in August 1916 when a number of men made the move. He died of wounds (accidentally received ) on 1 November 1916 and is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, grave I.B.3. John Morse

His brother Richard Ingall also served during the 'Great War' in the Army Service Corp motor transport section, he was discharged from the Army on 1st July 1919 with diabetes and died on 19th December 1920 from a heart attack. He had previously served at Gallipoli, landing there as a reinforcement to the 9th Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment on 30th September 1915. He witnessed Lord Kitchener's visit to the peninsula he wrote home the letter was published on 10th December 1915 in the Nottingham Weekly Express :- “I have often wondered what foreign lands were like, but, oh dear! Give me England! Things are just the same here as they were thousands of years ago. Everything is carried on donkeys – no carts; and in the villages there is no attempt at sanitation. “So far things are passable out here. Of course, things are a trifle rough, but we must expect that. One chap mentioned butter the other day, and I had to scratch my head and wonder for a minute. I have some faint recollection of it. We get plenty of jam and bully-beef. Just now we are doing very well for bread; in fact, there is very little to grumble anyhow. “I saw here to-day that I only saw once all the time I was at Lichfield, but I knew him again in a minute. It was Lord Kitchener; you see I am not the only big man about these parts. Joking apart, the great soldier seems to have a look on his face that indicates something going to happen. I was surprised to see him here. There is something in the wind, and we may expect to see things go with a rush. “I can’t tell you anything about the war, I never mention it, then I keep clear of the censor’s big blue pencil. While I have been writing this I have got two letters from home, so the most cheerful man in this tent is, yours sincerely, F. Ingall” Obituary notices published 18th November 1916 in the Nottingham Evening Post :- “INGALL. – Died of wounds, November 1st, Rfn. F. Ingall, beloved husband of Lizzie Ingall, of Mapperley, aged 29. Till we meet again. – From his sorrowing wife and child. “INGALL. – Died of wounds, November 1st, Rfn. Frederick Ingall, aged 29, beloved son of Rebecca and the late Frederick Ingall, of Mapperley. Peace, perfect peace. – Mother, sisters, and only brother (in France).” Above article and obituaries are courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918