Private Fred Chell

Army Number : 203514 (formerly 1434)

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Edward and Lucy Chell. Husband of Emma Chell, of Station Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He enlisted on 6th June 1911 and went to France 28th February 1915. He suffered gunshot wounds to his chest, 16th July 1915 and was transferred to England where he spent 4 months in Chesterfield Sanitorium. He was discharged physically unfit for militarty service 9th August 1917 and died from pulmonary tuberculosis 13th November 1918, aged 26.

Buried : Ashbourne Cemetery, United Kingdom. C. C. of E. 51.

Private Fred Chell is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Oswald Church War Memorial, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Ashbourne Memorial Gates, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Sam Chell, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.