FREDERICK HENRY SCOFFIELD
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Photograph courtesy of Erica Burrows.
Born: 11th October 1892, Ipswich.
Baptised on New Year’s Day, 1893, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 45, Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
Died: Christmas Day, 1916; age 24; KiA.
Residence: 6, Bulwer Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: a Checker for the Great Eastern Railway. Entered the company on the 5th November 1908.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Following training, Frederick landed at Le Havre, France, with the 17th Battalion on the 8th of March 1916. Being wounded on the 20th August 1916 in the preparation for the attack on Ancre Heights.
E.A.D.T. – Monday, 31st July 1916 – Mrs. Rebekah Scoffield, who resides at 6, Bulwer Road, Ipswich, has received news that her son, Frederick Henry Scoffield, of the King’s Royal Rifles, has been admitted to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds in the back. He is progressing favourably.
Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: C/1315
Regiment: King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 17th Battalion (British Empire League).
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
II.W.5.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Eldest son of Henry T.G. & Rebekah Scoffield, of 6, Bulwer Road, Ipswich.
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury – 1917
CENSUS
1901 45, Dillwyn Street, Ipswich.
Frederick was 8 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Henry Thomas Gardiner Scoffield, 41, a Postman, born St. Matthew’s, Ipswich.
Rebekah Scoffield (nee Jeffery), 38, born Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Edith Rebecca Scoffield, 13, born Ipswich.
Ethel May Scoffield, 10, born Ipswich.
Arthur William Scoffield, 6, born Ipswich.
Ernest Edward Scoffield, 1, born Ipswich.
1911 6, Bulwer Road, Ipswich.
Frederick was 18 years old, a Railway Porter. he was living with his parents & brothers.
Henry, 51, a Postman – G.P.O.
Rebekah, 48.
Ernest, 11.
Alfred Sidney Scoffield, 7, born Ipswich.
In 1909, Frederick helped to move the 16ft 10ins, Somalian giraffe from Ipswich Railway Station to the Ipswich Museum, in High Street.
Soldiers’ Effects to Rebekah Scoffield – mother.
Frederick is also remembered on the Great Eastern Memorial, Liverpool Street, London and at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, and on the war memorial at SPRINGFIELD SCHOOL, Ipswich.
Mr. Arthur Scoffield at his 100th birthday party. Arthur, a D-Day veteran of the Royal Engineers bomb disposal team, cleared Juno beach while under fire, allowing the 3rd Canadians to take Juno sector and push on into Normandy. Arthur’s uncle died in 1916 on Christmas Day and is commemorated on the Ipswich War Memorial. Arthur produced one of his treasured items, a cigarette case from his uncle, which had been sent home with his personal effects after it had been collected from his body.
King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 17th Battalion
Margaret – My husband and I used to take battlefield tours to Belgium and always laid crosses on the graves of the men who all died on that day at Essex Farm, and they were always referred to as the Christmas Day boys. It wasn’t until one occasion we looked in the book to see where these boys came from to find one was from Ipswich, which made it more poignant from our point of view, as we were from Suffolk, and the fact he was in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps hadn’t made us think that he was a local man.
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