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Little is known about the Lettingtons brothers who died during the war, there are no obituaries or photos. Only Frederick's army record survives and a record of Arthur, Frederick , Frank and other siblings joining the Band of Hope at the Wesleyan Church.
William Lettington and Jane Revell were married in 1881. They moved between West Wickham, Cudham and Hayes before settling in Bromley where their youngest child Harry Frank was born in 1898. They had ten children, seven boys and 3 girls. In August 1898 their son Walter William (aged 10) was found dead in a field, believed to have died following a fit brought on by the heat. As well as losing four sons to the war two of their daughters married into families who also lost members. Georgina Jessie married Arthur Maunton whose brother Albert died; Annie Maria married Henry James Gregory whose brother Thomas, brother-in-law Augustus Charles Cook and nephew Charles Frederick Gregory all died. Thomas Gregory's wife Mary Ann (nee Gurr) also lost a brother, Arthur George and nephew George William.
Frederick was William and Jane's 6th child. He was a pupil at Raglan Road School before taking employment as a baker.
He enlisted in the West Kents on 25th October 1914 in Bromley and was posted to France on 22nd April 1915. On 11th July 1916 he was found guilty of being drunk when on active service and sentenced to 45 days F P 1. (Field Punishment Number One consisted of the convicted man being placed in fetters and handcuffs or similar restraints and attached to a fixed object, such as a gun wheel, for up to two hours per day). On 15th March 1917 Frederick was wounded in his left thigh when a rifle accidently went off whilst being cleaned.
It was in the Nieppe Forest sector at the end of June 1918 that Frederick was injured and taken to the 39th Stationary Hospital at Aire, south of St. Omer where he died of his wounds on 29th June.
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