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22nd May 1918 the same paper reported:-
“Kings Cliffe – Private D Saddington who was seriously wounded by
explosion of a shell in an ammunition dump on May 4th, is now in
hospital in Torquay. We wish him a complete recovery.”
In 1921 Daniel married Nellie Palmer in Tonbridge, Kent.
His death was recorded in Bedford in 1974.
SADDINGTON Frederick
Sapper 256465 260th Railway Construction Company,
Royal Engineers
Frederick was born in 1891 in Kings Cliffe and the youngest son
of George and Mary Saddington of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
In 1911 he was still living at home and working as a domestic
gardener.
His name is not amongst the list of those who joined up in 1914
so we can presume that that he enlisted around the end of 1915
or early in 1916 when conscription came in.
The use of railways was critical to the war effort of both sides and
by the end of the war there were hundreds of thousands of men
involved in building and maintaining the rail links to the front.
Both sides were keen to destroy the rail infrastructure of their
opponents and so shelling them was a frequent occurrence.
The 260th Railway Construction Company was raised at the
railway training camp at Longmoor Camp, north of Portsmouth.
It embarked for France on 3rd February 1917.
We do not have a record of Frederick’s time in France (War
diary 95/4045 at the Record Office at Kew will have a day-by-
day record, if anyone wants to check this out with a visit) but we
do know that the British attack on Cambrai and the subsequent
German counter-attack had finished by 7th December 1917.
This did not stop sporadic shelling by both sides and it may have
been a chance shell which killed Frederick on 10th December
1917. He was 26 years old.
He is buried at the Oxford Road Cemetery, just NE of Ypres in
Flanders. Grave V.F.10.
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“Kings Cliffe – Private D Saddington who was seriously wounded by
explosion of a shell in an ammunition dump on May 4th, is now in
hospital in Torquay. We wish him a complete recovery.”
In 1921 Daniel married Nellie Palmer in Tonbridge, Kent.
His death was recorded in Bedford in 1974.
SADDINGTON Frederick
Sapper 256465 260th Railway Construction Company,
Royal Engineers
Frederick was born in 1891 in Kings Cliffe and the youngest son
of George and Mary Saddington of West Street, Kings Cliffe.
In 1911 he was still living at home and working as a domestic
gardener.
His name is not amongst the list of those who joined up in 1914
so we can presume that that he enlisted around the end of 1915
or early in 1916 when conscription came in.
The use of railways was critical to the war effort of both sides and
by the end of the war there were hundreds of thousands of men
involved in building and maintaining the rail links to the front.
Both sides were keen to destroy the rail infrastructure of their
opponents and so shelling them was a frequent occurrence.
The 260th Railway Construction Company was raised at the
railway training camp at Longmoor Camp, north of Portsmouth.
It embarked for France on 3rd February 1917.
We do not have a record of Frederick’s time in France (War
diary 95/4045 at the Record Office at Kew will have a day-by-
day record, if anyone wants to check this out with a visit) but we
do know that the British attack on Cambrai and the subsequent
German counter-attack had finished by 7th December 1917.
This did not stop sporadic shelling by both sides and it may have
been a chance shell which killed Frederick on 10th December
1917. He was 26 years old.
He is buried at the Oxford Road Cemetery, just NE of Ypres in
Flanders. Grave V.F.10.
176
