Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William STRINGER
Army Service Corps

Date of birth: 7th May 1873
Date of death: 30th June 1916

Died aged 43
Commemorated at Golders Green Crematorium
He was born at New Romney on the 7th of May 1873, the second son of Henry Stringer OKS, solicitor, and Harriet (nee Walker) of "The Elms", New Romney. He was christened at New Romney on the 3rd of June 1873.

He was educated at the Junior King's School from May 1883 to July 1886 and at Charterhouse School where he was in Verites House from September 1886 to 1891.

Deciding to make a career in the army he entered the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1892 leaving in 1893 and on the 7th of March 1894 he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He served in the UK until the 10th of May 1894 when he was posted to the Straits Settlement where he served until the 23rd of March 1895 when he returned to England. He underwent a training course in range finding at Aldershot in 1897. He served as Battalion Adjutant from the 21st of September 1898 until 1901.

He saw service in the South African war for which was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps, following which, on the 1st of February 1902, he was seconded to the Army Service Corps as a Captain and was confirmed in that rank on the 28th of March 1903.

He was married to Ruby Lowell (nee Few) at the Church of St Augustine's at Doornfontein in South Africa on the 6th of August 1902. They lived at 7 Mark's Court, London.

From 1909 he served as an Assistant Instructor and was later Adjutant of the Army Service Corps Training Establishment until the 1st of April 1912 during which time he lived at 7 Church Circle, South Farnborough in Hampshire. He was a keen member of the Army Service Corps Cricket XI. He left the Training Establishment on the 1st of January 1914 and on the 1st of February he was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Director of Transport at the War Office and was promoted to Major on the 25th of April 1914. On the 15th of March 1915 he was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel in November 1915 and to Assistant Director.

He died from heart failure following an operation for a duodenal ulcer on the 30th of June 1916 at the Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

The Kentish Express wrote:-

"He served in the Transportation Directorate at the War Office with untiring energy and devotion to duty until within a few days of his death."

He is commemorated on the war memorial at Charterhouse School.
Junior King's School

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