Royal Army Service Corps, Motor Transport Depot (Grove Park)
Frederick Lapworth was the son of William and Sarah Ann Lapworth, who lived at 4 Knowsley Parade, St Paul’s Road, Cheltenham. He was born in the latter part of 1890 in Cheltenham.
He enlisted in the Army early in the war and joined the Army Service Corps and according to his Medal Index Card he first went to France on 30 July 1915. A single man, he had served on the Western Front until the end of the war. He was accidentally killed in an accident on the railway at Eltham, near Lewisham, south London on 2 April 1919; he was 28. He was crossing the lines during darkness as a short cut to his billets when he was struck by a train.
He is buried in Cheltenham Cemetery, where a CWGC headstone marks the grave and he is commemorated on the Cheltenham Town War Memorial and also that in Salem Baptist Church at Clarence Parade. A photograph of him was published in The Graphic of 26 April 1919
Researched by Graham Adams 30 January 2013
(Acknowledgement to ‘Leaving All that was Dear – Cheltenham and the Great War’ by Joe Devereux
and Graham Sacker)