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Frederick Charles CATTELL (1885-1955)
Frederick, having lived for some years in Birmingham, the birthplace of his father Charles Henry, moved with his family to 83 North View Road, Hornsey, sometime before the 1911 Census. On the 1901 Census they had left Snow Hill, Birmingham and were already in Hornsey, living at Frobisher Road, Harringay, Hornsey. The rest of the family was mother Clara and two younger siblings. Father Charles seems to have been a Gunmaker in Birmingham but became a typewriter mechanic in London.
Frederick was 31 in 1916, living at 2 Temple Road and working as a assurance agent.
How Frederick started his journey to become a CO is not known as we have no Tribunal records for him until he appeared before the Central Tribunal in July 1916.
We know that at some point before that he had been made to enrol in the 15th/2ndMiddlesex Regiment. It is likely that he had been an absentee who had been picked up and taken under military escort to a Barracks and put into the Army.
It looks as if he subsequently disobeyed orders, because Frederick was court martialled on 1st July 1916 at Shoreham Barracks and sentenced to two years Hard Labour – later commuted to 112 days – which he served in Wormwood Scrubs.
At his second appearance before the Central Tribunal on 4th August he was found to be a CO Class A and referred to the Brace Committee. He spent the rest of the War in Home Office Scheme Work Centres: August 1916 he was road-mending in Clare, W. Suffolk; from August 1917 to January 1918 he was at Dartmoor Work Centre and then on 22 January moved to Minworth, Birmingham
Frederick died in Bromley, Kent in 1955, aged 69.
PR/IWM