Sergeant Frederick Charles Farmer
1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
14/02/1915
(photograph courtesy of Mrs Marion Rossler)
1914-15 Star
Lived
at No 14 La Chasse, St Helier, Jersey with his wife Emma Ryan and their three
children and was employed before the war by Mr Anthony, the butcher in Halkett
Place.
He died at No 11 Field Hospital in Boulogne of wounds
to his spine, aged 30 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Friday 19 February 1915
Roll of Honour. Death of Sergeant Farmer.
News has been received on the Island from the Matron
of General Hospital, Boulogne of the death of Sergeant
Frederick Charles Farmer of the 1st East Surrey Regiment
in his 30th year. The deceased who resided at 14 La
Chasse, St Helier, leaves a widow, a Jersey lady, and
3 children. Prior to the war he was employed by Mr Anthony
a butcher of Halkett Place. In the letter conveying
the sad news to Mrs Farmer the Matron alluded to the
fact that the deceased had sustained a serious injury
to his spine and that even if he had lived he would
have been partially paralysed. She also alluded to the
fact that the deceased had been recommended for the
VC and that he was a great favourite with all the patients
in the ward. It is interesting to note that Sergeant
Farmer belonged to a most heroic family his father having
already won the VC in an earlier campaign.
