Wednesday 27 October 2010

623 Rfm Frederick Kyte, 3rd Bn, Rifle Brigade

623 Rifleman Frederick Kyte of the 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was killed in action on the 27th October 1914, one of over five hundred British officers and men to die on this date. He was a Londoner, born in Acton and living in Ham Common when he enlisted at the Rifle Brigade HQ in Winchester. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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