8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
Frederick Henry Tudor was the son of Henry and Alice Julia Tudor, nee Ball. He was born in Slimbridge in 1892, one of seven children and twinned with his sister Sarah Elizabeth.
The 1901 census records him living in Slimbridge, on Slimbridge Street (now Ryalls Lane), with his mother and six siblings. (His father was not recorded but he did not die until 1903.) By 1911 Frederick was still in Slimbridge with his mother and two brothers and working as a farm labourer. He worked for Ernest Cullimore of Cambridge who said he was “a model son and an ideal workman”.
Frederick volunteered when war was declared and was sent to the Dardanelles as a member of the 7th Gloucesters. He was severely wounded at Suvla Bay on 27 September 1915.
On recovering from his wounds, Frederick was sent to France with the 8th Gloucesters in March 1916 where he would have been in action at the Battle of the Somme. Frederick was killed on 3 July in his 24th year; his body was never found.
Frederick has no known grave but is commemorated with 72,000 other men on the Thiepval Memorial.
(Taken from Slimbridge Remembers)