Fred Card

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Fred Card was born in 1881 in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, and baptised there on 29th May, 1881. He was the son of Frank Henry Card, a bricklayer, and Maria Jane Card (nee Dibben). Fred married Mabel Flora Melinda Score on 30th January, 1911 at St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury, Wiltshire. There were three children of the marriage, all boys. At the time of the 1911 Census, he was working as a bricklayer and living at Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Having been a member of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment and being placed on reserve following his discharge he re-enlisted in Blandford, Dorset, on 25th August, 1914, as a Private in the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment (Service No. 3/7907). He served in France & Flanders from 13 May 1915 and was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star. He died of wounds received in action in the field on 20th June 1916 and was buried at Authuile Military Cemetery, Authuile, Somme, France (grave id. D.28). His mother died in 1918. His widow was awarded a pension of £1.0s.6d (£1.2p) per week for herself and three children but regrettably she died on 20th October 1923 aged 38 years. The pension in respect of the children continued until they became of age. He is remembered on the Sixpenny Handley War Memorial.