Also Served: Frederick Bond Ames - Frederick Bond AMES
22 Hope Street, Prescot Private 3461, No 2 Coy., 1st Bn., Welsh Guards
In the 1911 census, the Ames family lived at 40 Eccleston Street, Prescot. Samuel Henry Ames was a 49 year old Grocer, Bread and Confectionary Maker. He had been married to Mary, aged 50, for 29 years and of their eight children, four were still living. Frederick was 21, single and a Grocer's Assistant (presumably working for his father), Annie was 19, single and a Bread Maker, and the other two children were Mary (16) and Ethel (12).
On 9th December 1915, Frederick Ames attested into the Welsh Guards. He was 25 years and 9 months old (born in 1890), a Baker and grocer of 22, Hope Street, Prescot. He was 5 foot 6 inches tall. He was a married man, his wife being Ella Beatrice Ames (nee Jowett) of the same address. They had married at the Wesleyan Chapel, Prescot, on 12th July 1915. They had two children; Frederick Henry Ames, born 15th November 1915 in Prescot, and Dorothy Mary Ames, born 24th March 1917 at Whiston.
He noted that he had previous military service with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Frederick was immediately posted to the Army Reserve and was only mobilised on 17th November 1916. He went to France on 27th May 1917.
On 7th October 1918 whilst serving in France, he suffered slight burns as a result of an accident with a bomb (grenade). The incident report stated that Pte. Ames was sitting in a trench when another soldier, Cpl. 1876 H. Gilbert, threw a grenade into the trench and it exploded. The incident was deemed to be accidental although Cpl. Gilbert was sent to face a Court Martial.
Pte. Ames was admitted to hospital on 9th October then moved to the hospital at Etaples on 11th October where he remained until 13th November, then being discharged to the Base Depot. He rejoined his unit on the 18th December and stayed with them through to 11th March 1919 when he embarked at Dunkirk for the UK.
He was demobilised to the Army Reserve on 17th October 1919 but he rejoined the Royal Corps of Signals on 3rd October 1921, then serving under number 2557402. He was entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Frederick died in Prescot in 1930, aged 40.Ref. No.:
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