WW1 100 years on - William Fred Northover

Name	William Fred Northover
Address	Albion Cottages (now Wessex cottage), Osmington, Near Weymouth, Dorset
Date of Birth Place	1894 Preston, Dorset
Date of Death Place	23/10/1916 Somme, Western front
Family Info	Mother Dorcas Northover nee Mears born in Osmington 1864 died and buried there in 1915. Father Frederick Northover died in 1897 in Littlemoor and is buried in Broadway. His parents married in Preston on 11 September 1892 They had four sons only Arthur and William lived to adulthood and both were killed in 1916 on the western front. His younger brother Arthur Northover died in September 1916
Military Information: Killed October 1916 2nd Royal Berks Regiment Private Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd Battalion. Service Number 18342 He is named on the Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 11 D. The memorial commemorates more than 72,000 men of British and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave, the majority of whom died during the Somme offensive of 1916.
Further Information:  Before the war he was working on a farm in Preston as a carter with his younger brother. The cartshed in Sutton Poyntz was owned latterly by Mr Diment and had a number of the carts stored there. He was baptised in Preston on 25 February 1894 his father was listed as a labourer When he died a war gratuity was paid to his next of kin, Uncle Thomas Mears