Sergeant Fred Coulam Handley

Army Number: 22619

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards M.M. (Military Medal)

Born at Kilenhall, Lincolnshire and lived at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Son of Emilia and Joseph Coulam Handley and Laneham, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Florence Handley, of Private Road, King Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He was a farm labourer at Kirklington, Nottinghamshire prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 27th August 1915. He won the Military Medal London Gazette Date 7th October 1918 ” Being an immediate award for his gallantry and devotion to duty at Kemmel during the second German offensive when they attacked between the 12th and 17th April 1918″. He died of pneumonia 16th October 1918, aged 32, at No. 73 General Hospital, Trouville, France.

Buried: Tourgeville Military Cemetery, France. Plot IV. Row D, Grave 19.

Sergeant Handley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
St Swithin’s Church War Memorial, Kirklington, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Wesleyan Church War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

He was one of 4 brothers who served, two of who died. His brother Private Wilfred Handley, Grenadier Guards, also fell in the Great War.