SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Sergeant Fred Mason, 4110

Sergeant Fred Mason, 4110
2nd Battalion, Border Regiment

Newspaper obituary :

"Sergeant Fred Mason, Border Regiment, of 82 Barker Street, Oldham, was killed in action on July 1st. He was 27 years of age, and was called up at the outbreak of war as a reservist, having served seven years with the army. He had been wounded once, and returned to duty about four months ago. When in Oldham he was insurance agent. His wife has received the following letters from Regimental Sergeant-Major Stuart Davenport:

Dear Madam. – It is with real sorrow I inform you that your husband, Sergeant Mason, has been killed. He was shot through the lungs … He had got well on, and was doing his job nobly … liked your husband very much and I can feel what a blow it will be to you. All I can say is: Take heart; he us at peace having done his job right well and been rewarded now in heaven. Believe me, in deepest Sympathy.’

Private D. Racy, one of the men in Sergeant Mason’s platoon, writes regretting his death ‘as we knew him as a true and upright soldier, and we all send our sympathy in your great trouble.’

In another letter, Lance-corporal Thornton Kinder of the Oldham Pals, who is now in hospital himself, says that Sergeant Mason ‘had got well over the second German line when he lost his life. One of his men got buried, and Fred got him out and was giving him something."

Medal Roll Card

He was buried in the Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz.

CWGC

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