Street, Frederick Vernon

Rank:

Driver

Regiment:

R.F.A/Royal Engineers/ K.O.D.K.E

Regimental No. & Battalion

64697/ 190511/258604;

Status:

Research Notes

On his Repatriation Application after the war he asked to be repatriated to Buenos Aires, Argentina with the comment under "Grounds on which claim is based" as: "To return home where a situation awaits me. Came to England to join up voluntarily in 1914." He arrived at Liverpool aboard the SS Amazon from Buenos Aires, on the 29th November 1914, to join the war effort. The passenger list records him as an engine driver – and he was a driver during WW1 (although absent from roll call a number of times!) and left the war a 2nd Corporal, and returned to Argentina in 1919.Frederick was the son of JOSHUA STREET & AGNES (nee HAIL), born 1885.

From Frederick Street's Service Record –

Address Derwent Terrace Whatstandwell; aged 29 years 11 months; engine driver (superior); enrolled 05/01/15; height 5ft 8 in; weight 144lb; birthmark ionside right thigh; home 05/01/15 to 24/09/15, France 25/09/15 to 14/04/19, home 15/04/19 to 15/05/19; next of kin Agnes Street (mother) Derwent Terrace, Whatstandwell; awarded 5 days field punishment No.2 "absent from parade" 11/02/16;transferred to 279 Coy as sapper engine driver; 24/07/16 absent from roll call awarded awarded 2 days confined to barracks;06/02/17 neglect of duty in that he was absent from his post without leave for 30 minutes, awarded 14 days field punishment No.2 (open arrest); 10/10/16 absent from Bty during alarm; 29/10/16 absent from parade; 05/02/16 absent from parade; 24/07/16 absent from roll call at 9.00 pm; address Ash Mount, Whatstandwell; age 34 dated June 1915; transferred from RFA to RE 15/05/16; Gunner Street 111th BDR R.F.A to become Sapper Street R.E.; 01/05/19 request for passage to Buenos Aires from 2nd Corporal Frederick Street who will be departing 01/07/19; free passage overseas granted