Lieutenant, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. Son of F. Vere Allfrey and Maud Allfrey, of Ashridgewood, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.
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"On 7th September 1914 Lieutenant Frederic de Vere Bruce Allfrey, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, was killed in action during the Battle of Montcel-Fretoy, near Provins in France.
His parents' only son, he was raised with his older sister, and educated at the Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire. In 1910 he entered the Royal Military College (now Academy) at Sandhurst in Berkshire. The following year he was commissioned in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers and stationed in Canterbury. He arrived in France with his regiment in August of 1914.
It was on the second day of the Battle of the Marne that Lieutenant Allfrey lost his life. The commander of the 9th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell, had set out to investigate rifle fire near the village of Montcel-Fretoy. On seeing a hundred Prussian Guard Dragoons he returned to his men (thirty in number), and led them in a charge against the Prussians, some of whom had followed him. The charge gained fame because it was the last time the British would be in a lance-on-lance cavalry charge. A worth-reading account of the battle can be found here - https://militaryhistorynow.com/.../the-battle-of-montcel.../
Lieutenant Allfrey dismounted during the battle to help a wounded officer who had been injured by an enemy lance - sadly as he attempted to remove the lance from his fellow officer's leg he was shot dead by a nearby wounded Prussian. He lies buried in the Communal Cemetery of the village of Fretoy in the Seine-Marne region of France, and on his headstone are the words, "Splendid he passed, the great surrender made".
Lieutenant Affrey's grandmother endowed a bed in his memory in the Benyon Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, his parents provided a brass plaque in his memory to the Wokingham Town Hall, he is commemorated on the 9th Lancers memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst, and on the Ascham St. Vincent war memorial arch.
Frederic, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, was 22 years old."
The following information is courtesy of the 100 years challenge:
"On 7th September 1914 Lieutenant Frederic de Vere Bruce Allfrey, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, was killed in action during the Battle of Montcel-Fretoy, near Provins in France.
His parents' only son, he was raised with his older sister, and educated at the Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire. In 1910 he entered the Royal Military College (now Academy) at Sandhurst in Berkshire. The following year he was commissioned in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers and stationed in Canterbury. He arrived in France with his regiment in August of 1914.
It was on the second day of the Battle of the Marne that Lieutenant Allfrey lost his life. The commander of the 9th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell, had set out to investigate rifle fire near the village of Montcel-Fretoy. On seeing a hundred Prussian Guard Dragoons he returned to his men (thirty in number), and led them in a charge against the Prussians, some of whom had followed him. The charge gained fame because it was the last time the British would be in a lance-on-lance cavalry charge. A worth-reading account of the battle can be found here - https://militaryhistorynow.com/.../the-battle-of-montcel.../
Lieutenant Allfrey dismounted during the battle to help a wounded officer who had been injured by an enemy lance - sadly as he attempted to remove the lance from his fellow officer's leg he was shot dead by a nearby wounded Prussian. He lies buried in the Communal Cemetery of the village of Fretoy in the Seine-Marne region of France, and on his headstone are the words, "Splendid he passed, the great surrender made".
Lieutenant Affrey's grandmother endowed a bed in his memory in the Benyon Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, his parents provided a brass plaque in his memory to the Wokingham Town Hall, he is commemorated on the 9th Lancers memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst, and on the Ascham St. Vincent war memorial arch.
Frederic, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, was 22 years old."
Lieutenant, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. Son of F. Vere Allfrey and Maud Allfrey, of Ashridgewood, Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.
The following information is courtesy of the 100 years challenge:
"On 7th September 1914 Lieutenant Frederic de Vere Bruce Allfrey, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, was killed in action during the Battle of Montcel-Fretoy, near Provins in France.
His parents' only son, he was raised with his older sister, and educated at the Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire. In 1910 he entered the Royal Military College (now Academy) at Sandhurst in Berkshire. The following year he was commissioned in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers and stationed in Canterbury. He arrived in France with his regiment in August of 1914.
It was on the second day of the Battle of the Marne that Lieutenant Allfrey lost his life. The commander of the 9th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell, had set out to investigate rifle fire near the village of Montcel-Fretoy. On seeing a hundred Prussian Guard Dragoons he returned to his men (thirty in number), and led them in a charge against the Prussians, some of whom had followed him. The charge gained fame because it was the last time the British would be in a lance-on-lance cavalry charge. A worth-reading account of the battle can be found here - https://militaryhistorynow.com/.../the-battle-of-montcel.../
Lieutenant Allfrey dismounted during the battle to help a wounded officer who had been injured by an enemy lance - sadly as he attempted to remove the lance from his fellow officer's leg he was shot dead by a nearby wounded Prussian. He lies buried in the Communal Cemetery of the village of Fretoy in the Seine-Marne region of France, and on his headstone are the words, "Splendid he passed, the great surrender made".
Lieutenant Affrey's grandmother endowed a bed in his memory in the Benyon Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, his parents provided a brass plaque in his memory to the Wokingham Town Hall, he is commemorated on the 9th Lancers memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst, and on the Ascham St. Vincent war memorial arch.
Frederic, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, was 22 years old."
The following information is courtesy of the 100 years challenge:
"On 7th September 1914 Lieutenant Frederic de Vere Bruce Allfrey, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, was killed in action during the Battle of Montcel-Fretoy, near Provins in France.
His parents' only son, he was raised with his older sister, and educated at the Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, and Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire. In 1910 he entered the Royal Military College (now Academy) at Sandhurst in Berkshire. The following year he was commissioned in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers and stationed in Canterbury. He arrived in France with his regiment in August of 1914.
It was on the second day of the Battle of the Marne that Lieutenant Allfrey lost his life. The commander of the 9th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colonel David Campbell, had set out to investigate rifle fire near the village of Montcel-Fretoy. On seeing a hundred Prussian Guard Dragoons he returned to his men (thirty in number), and led them in a charge against the Prussians, some of whom had followed him. The charge gained fame because it was the last time the British would be in a lance-on-lance cavalry charge. A worth-reading account of the battle can be found here - https://militaryhistorynow.com/.../the-battle-of-montcel.../
Lieutenant Allfrey dismounted during the battle to help a wounded officer who had been injured by an enemy lance - sadly as he attempted to remove the lance from his fellow officer's leg he was shot dead by a nearby wounded Prussian. He lies buried in the Communal Cemetery of the village of Fretoy in the Seine-Marne region of France, and on his headstone are the words, "Splendid he passed, the great surrender made".
Lieutenant Affrey's grandmother endowed a bed in his memory in the Benyon Ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, his parents provided a brass plaque in his memory to the Wokingham Town Hall, he is commemorated on the 9th Lancers memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst, and on the Ascham St. Vincent war memorial arch.
Frederic, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, was 22 years old."
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