Lockwood,+Fred

Sergeant, Duke of Wellingtons Regiment, Service number 1645. Died 23rd July 1916. WARLOY-BAILLON Cemetery Extension on the Somme, Plot V. Row C. Grave 22.
 * Fred Lockwood**



Born 1885/6 at Meltham, Huddersfield. WARLOY-BAILLON Cemetery Extension on the Somme. Grave Ref. V. C. 22 Fred was the natural son of Thomas Bates and Violet Lockwood. The family had moved to Oxenhope by 1901. Fred married Sarah A. Brook in 1906 and they had three children, born in 1907, 1909 and 1910. He worked as a worsted spinner and at the time of his death lived in Keighley.

Fred had brothers who served, they were: Harry Bates who enlisted in his mothers maiden name of Lockwood. Killed 24th August 1914. Stansfield Bates who survived the war. Asa Bates who also survived.