F

This is a full list of names of those men and women who gave their lives in the course of the First World War while contributing to the war effort, both at home and overseas.

The roll contains not only the names of soldiers who died on the frontline, but also men and women who were fatally injured in munitions factory accidents or during other duties such as nursing.

Surname	First name	Date of death	Rank	Service number	Regiment	Battalion etc
Fairclough	Frederick William	31/12/1917	Sapper	284262	Royal Engineers	98th Light Railway Train Crew Company
Fairclough	George Edward	17/02/1917	Private	23630	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Falconbridge	Harold	28/08/1917	Private	24746	South Wales Borderers	2nd Battalion
Fallon	Lawrence or Laurence	07/05/1916	Private	17202	South Wales Borderers	6th Battalion
Fallon	Michael	10/09/1916	Private	9807	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Fanshawe	Frederick Charles	13/02/1917	Lance Corporal	27341	King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	1st Battalion
Farley	Edwin	28/04/1915	Private	5672	Worcestershire Regiment	4th Battalion
Farlow	Samuel	19/07/1916	Private	80	Australian Infantry	29th Battalion
Farmer	Arthur	28/04/1917	Private	40584	Norfolk Regiment	7th Battalion
Farmer	Thomas	01/11/1918	Private	3354	Royal Army Medical Corps	5th Casualty Clearing Station
Farmer	Thomas Edward	08/06/1917	Private	31745	King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry	8th Battalion
Farrell	Alfred	25/09/1915	Private	9445	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Farrell or Farrall	George	25/05/1915	Rifleman	9779	King’s Royal Rifle Corps	4th Battalion
Farroll	J.	Unknown
Favill	Arnold Wilfred	21/03/1918	Lance Corporal	240895	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Featherstone	James	03/03/1916	Private	9932	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Fegan	Edward Joseph	04/09/1916	Corporal	420609	Canadian Infantry	16th Battalion
Fellenden	Thomas	09/10/1917	Private	28065	Grenadier Guards	2nd Battalion
Fellows	Alfred J.	07/08/1915	Lance Corporal	14825	West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)	9th Battalion
Fellows	Arthur	12/12/1917	Private	16176	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Fellows	Arthur Simpson	01/04/1917	Second Lieutenant		Worcestershire Regiment	7th Battalion
Fellows	Frank Hubert	30/12/1918	Private	39918	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Fellows	James	13/10/1915	Private	2936	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Fellows	John Thomas	16/05/1918	Private	11975	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Fellows	Joseph	26/08/1917	Private	13485	Lancashire Fusiliers	9th Battalion
Fellows	Samuel	05/06/1915	Private	1735	Monmouthshire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Fellows	William	07/05/1915	Gunner	35498	Royal Field Artillery	13th Battery
Fellows	William	09/08/1915	Private	10002	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Fellows	William Aaron	29/07/1917	Driver	25988	Royal Engineers	S. V. Cable Section
Felton	Henry	Unknown
Felton	William	28/11/1915	Serjeant	10137	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Fern	Joseph	06/08/1915	Private	9121	Worcestershire Regiment	4th Battalion
Fern	Joseph	18/11/1916	Corporal	39649	Worcestershire Regiment	10th Battalion
Fern	Percy	15/04/1918	Private	53121	Lincolnshire Regiment	5th Battalion
Ferriday	William	23/06/1917	Private	42468	West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)	2nd Battalion
Ferrington	Harry	01/07/1916	Private	6186	Rifle Brigade	1st Battalion
Fewtrell	Alfred James	25/05/1917	Private	241050	South Staffordshire Regiment	“D” Company, 1st/6th Battalion
Fewtrell	Samuel Levi	03/05/1917	Private	26767	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Field	Alan	Unknown
Fieldhouse	Alfred	26/03/1918	Able Seaman	J/16932 (Dev.)	Royal Navy	HMS “Hebe”
Fieldhouse	Arthur or Albert	06/05/1915	Private	10422	Worcestershire Regiment	4th Battalion
Fieldhouse	Charles	10/03/1917	Driver	31862	Royal Field Artillery	76th Brigade
Fincher	John Thomas	26/10/1917	Private	37792	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Finlan or Finlin	James	28/12/1918	Driver	90916	Royal Field Artillery	69th Battery, 31st Brigade
Finley	William Reginald	20/05/1918	Corporal	3647	Life Guards	1st Battalion
Finney	Charles	24/08/1918	Private	5718, later 14603	East Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to Labour Corps	Transferred to 188th Company
Fisher	Frederick	14/09/1918	Private	27263	Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)	13th Battalion
Fisher	George James	27/08/1916	Private	17050	Lancashire Fusiliers	18th Battalion
Fisher	George	23/03/1917	Driver	80589	Royal Field Artillery
Fisher	Percy Adolphus	28/04/1917	Private	86367	Machine Gun Corps	212th Company
Fisher	Victor William	14/10/1914	Private	10936	King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	1st Battalion
Fisher	Weston Arthur	22/03/1918	Private	200957	East Yorkshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Fisher	William	06/08/1915	Lance Corporal	11501	Worcestershire Regiment	4th Battalion
Fisher-Smith	Alan Archibald	01/08/1917	Lieutenant		Coldstream Guards, attached to Machine Gun Guards	Attached to 1st Company
Fitzpatrick	John	18/04/1918	Private	13027	South Wales Borderers	1st Battalion
Fitzpatrick	John	26/08/1918	Rifleman	201397	Rifle Brigade	19th Battalion
Flanagan	Thomas	17/04/1916	Private	23699	The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)	12th Battalion
Flavell	Arthur	12/08/1915	Corporal	1756	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Flavell	James William	12/10/1918	Private	10020	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/5th Battalion
Flavell	Sidney	21/09/1917	Private	241609	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Fleet	George	30/11/1917	Corporal	240309	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Fleet	George Richard	17/12/1915	Private	16900	South Staffordshire Regiment	“A” Company, 7th Battalion
Fletcher	A. J.	Unknown
Fletcher	Annie	21/01/1915	Civilian
Fletcher	Edward	30/04/1918	Private	10806	Cheshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Fletcher	George	21/09/1918	Private	41835	Northamptonshire Regiment	6th Battalion
Fletcher	John or Joseph Henry	27/04/1916	Sergeant	3608	South Staffordshire Regiment	“C” Company, 2nd/6th Battalion
Fletcher	John Thomas	11/06/1917	Private	8799	Army Cyclist Corps	11th Cyclist Battalion
Fletcher	Richard	04/02/1918	Fireman		Mercantile Marine	SS “Lofoten” (London)
Fletcher	Richard Henry or Harry	21/09/1918	Private	44218	Essex Regiment	9th Battalion
Fletcher	Samuel	15/10/1914	Private	4644	Hussars	18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Battalion
Fletcher	Walter	18/05/1915	Private	9986	South Staffordshire Regiment	“B” Company, 1st Battalion
Fletcher	Walter	09/06/1917	Private	18257	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Fletcher	Wiliam	07/11/1914	Private	9297	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Fletcher	William Aubrey	07/03/1917	Private	31259	Lincolnshire Regiment	Depot
Fletcher	William Henry	01/07/1916	Private	2154	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Flowers	Alfred Harold	30/09/1917	Company Serjeant Major	8152	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Follows	Christopher	03/09/1916	Private	16382	Royal Warwickshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Ford	William	17/02/1917	Private	16257	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Ford	William	10/11/1917	Gunner	820259	Royal Field Artillery	Attached “X” 46th Trench Mortar Battery
Forrester	John	05/06/1918	Private	38687	South Staffordshire Regiment	4th Battalion
Forrester	Samuel	25/05/1915	Private	11387	Hussars	3rd Battalion (King’s Own)
Forrester	Samuel	13/10/1915	Lance Corporal	2688	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Forrester	Samuel	22/03/1918	Private	89935	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	15th Battalion
Fosbrook	John	25/09/1915	Lance Corporal	9786	Leicestershire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Foster	Bertie David	11/04/1917	Private	241054	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd/6th Battalion
Foster	Frank	12/10/1917	Private	41519	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Foster	Frederick	10/06/1917	Private	31373	South Lancashire Regiment	7th Battalion
Foster	Herbert William	17/09/1916	Serjeant	16129	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Foster	John	03/03/1917	Gunner	56986	Royal Field Artillery
Foster	Roger	13/10/1915	Private	1184	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Foster	Sidney Dent	17/02/1917	Corporal	33146	Wiltshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Foster	Thomas	28/12/1915	Private	20132	King’s Shropshire Light Infantry	1st Battalion
Foster	William Corbett	08/01/1917	Gunner	845	Royal Field Artillery	V/46th Heavy Trench Mortar Battery
Foster	William Harold	14/09/1917	Gunner	110661	Royal Garrison Artillery	244th Siege Battery
Foundling	James	17/07/1918	Private	24448	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	15th Battalion
Fowke	Mansergh Cuthbert	30/08/1914	Captain		Manchester Regiment	2nd Battalion
Fowler	Joseph Ernest	03/05/1917	Private	308107	Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)	2nd/7th Battalion
Fowles	Alfred Thomas	01/02/1916	Private	9681	Hussars	15th (The King’s) Battalion
Fowles	William	02/07/1916	Serjeant	16987	Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	11th Battalion
Fox	John	21/07/1915	Private	9466	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Fox	John	13/08/1916	Private	18576	North Staffordshire Regiment	9th Battalion
Fox	Mark	15/09/1914	Private	7132	South Staffordshire Regiment	2nd Battalion
Fox	Norman John	19/02/1919	Gunner	189582	Royal Garrison Artillery	80th Siege Battery
Fox	Wilfred Sinclair	04/10/1917	Private	31523	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Foxon	W.	Unknown
Foy	Thomas	07/07/1916	Serjeant	290570	Monmouthshire Regiment	3rd Battalion
Francies or Francis	John Edward	01/07/1918	Private	203737	Lincolnshire Regiment	2nd/5th Battalion
Francis	Alfred	21/03/1918	Gunner	66394	Royal Field Artillery	“C” Battery, 295th Brigade
Francis	Edwin Richard	16/09/1918	Private	58087	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	13th Battalion
Francis	Robert William	07/05/1918	Quartermaster-Sergeant		South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Francis	William	31/07/1916	Private	W/240	Cheshire Regiment	13th Battalion
Fraser	Cecil James	10/07/1916	Private	12243	South Staffordshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Freakley	Henry	03/07/1916	Private	3098	South Staffordshire Regiment	1st/6th Battalion
Freeman	Arthur	18/03/1915	Rifleman	Y/1040	King’s Royal Rifle Corps	3rd Battalion
Freeman	Benjamin	08/08/1916	Gunner	71421	Royal Field Artillery	“D” Battery, 70th Brigade
Freeman	John William	23/10/1918	Private	52025	Leicestershire Regiment	1st Battalion
Freeman	Joseph	09/08/1915	Private	15113	South Staffordshire Regiment	7th Battalion
Freeman	Percy Rowland	25/03/1918	Private	41964	Machine Gun Corps	5th Squadron (Cavalry)
Freeth	Abraham	18/04/1916	Sergeant	11516	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	8th Battalion
French	Ernest	25/11/1917	Private	11204	Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)	1st Battalion
Friedank or Frierdank	William Rudolph	31/03/1918	Private	38654	Lincolnshire Regiment	1st Battalion
Frith	Harold G. A.	27/06/1919	Private	72308	The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)	2nd/4th Battalion
Froggatt	Thomas	17/11/1917	Private	35607	Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)	164th Company
Frost	Arthur Benjamin	05/11/1918	Private	49651, transferred to 112943	King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	Transferred to the 11th Battalion
Frost	George Frederick	29/07/1918	Air Mechanic 2nd Class	315097	Royal Air Force	55th Training Depot Station
Frost	Herbert	03/10/1918	Private	235395	Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)	2nd Battalion
Frost	Hylton Brown	08/09/1914	Private	6966	Coldstream Guards	3rd Battalion
Frost	Leonard	13/11/1921			Royal Army Medical Corps
Frost	Percy Richard	21/10/1917	Gunner	810300	Royal Field Artillery	“D” Battery, 15th Brigade
Fry	Leslie	09/11/1918	Second Lieutenant		Royal Scots Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps	3rd Battalion and 50th Battalion
Fullwood	Benjamin	09/10/1917	Private	204165	King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry	1st/5th Battalion
Fullwood	James Benjamin	03/09/1918	Private	29991	Royal Welsh Fusiliers	2nd Battalion
Fullwood	Thomas	21/07/1916	Private	7962	East Yorkshire Regiment	8th Battalion
Furniss	Kevin Robert	29/04/1917	Lieutenant		Royal Flying Corps and Staffordshire Yeomanry	23rd Squadron