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Frederick Boylett was born in 1888 in Woking, Surrey, one of ten children born to James and Elizabeth Boylett. In 1901 aged 13 he living in Woking with his parents and eight of his siblings, working as a 'Point boy on Railway'.
The 1911 census states that Frederick, aged 23, and married, was a Corporal in the Army having served for 6 years and 7 months, living in Arnotts Buildings, Beverley with his wife, Mabel, and daughter. He was also included in the 1911 census return for Victoria Barracks, Beverley, listed as a Corporal in the 3rd Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.
In 1910 Frederick had married Mabel Firth, daughter of Ada Jane Firth of Beverley, they had three more children together.
Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows that while serving with the 1st Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, Frederick was killed in France on 1 Jul 1916; one of more than nineteen thousand fatalities sustained by the British Army on that day. Frederick was awarded the British War and Victory medals and, having no known grave, he is Remembered with Honour on the Thiepval Memorial and his name appears also on the Beverley War Memorial.
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