Frederick Measures
View Frederick on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
16419
Rank:
Private
Service:
Leicestershire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
1886
Date of death:
25 September 1915
Age at Death:
29
Known information
Frederick Measures was born at Gaulby, Leicestershire around 1886, the son of George and Sarah Measures. He had two brothers and two sisters. Shortly before the war he was working as an ironstone quarryman and lodging with the Winterton family at Burley on the Hill when he decided to join the army and enlisted with the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment at Melton Mowbray. Fred was killed in the Battle of Loos and is remembered on panel 43 of the Loos Memorial and also in Burley on the Hill church. His age must have been 29 or 30. His father, George Measures and stepmother Annie, were later recorded as living in Billesdon, Leicestershire.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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