Frederick Harold T Sadler
Rank: Private
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
Other Info: Frederick Sadler died aged 27 on 27th October 1918. He is buried at Hastings Cemetery. He was born in Hastings but is not named on either Hastings or Ore war memorials. Additional information from the Lives of the First World War website.
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Frederick Sadler is recorded in the 1901 census, like all the family, to have been born in Sedlescombe, a village a few miles to the north of St Leonards (which is adjacent to Hastings). They were living at 28 Earl Street, near the railway station. Father James was age 60, labourer at a gas works. Mother Elizabeth was 50. There were two Sadler sons and two Sadler daughters, Frederick being the youngest at 10, but also, after them, married daughter Emily Avery, 30. There was also a laundress as a lodger.
In the 1911 census at 82 Stonefield Road, Hastings, the entry for a 6-roomed dwelling implies that Emily Avery is actually Frederick's mother. Walter Avery, 40, married 17 years, 1 child, is a gas stoker for a gas works, born Hastings. Wife Emily Avery is 41. There follows Frederick Sadler, 19, as son. a draper's porter. His having the name of Sadler suggests he was born out of wedlock (Walter Edmund Avery married Emily Sadler in 1896 in Hastings). There follows mother in law Elizabeth Sadler, widow, who had had 8 children, sister in law Evelyn Sadler, 24, laundress, visitor Henry James Sadler, 45, married, and a lodger. For some reason it was the visitor who signed the form, and who absent-mindedly put his presumed home address in Colchester, Essex, rather than where he was staying.