Tony Harding has submitted the following:
CURTICE, Frederick Russell, Lieut., 79th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, eldest son of Alfred James Curtice, of 22, Hedley Street, Gosforth, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, Commercial Traveller, and his wife, Louisa, daughter of the late E.J. Edwins; born Sunderland, 4 July, 1892; educated South Gosforth Council School (Scholar), and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle; entered the N.E.R. Company as Junior Clerk at the age of 15, serving for two years; afterwards obtained a clerkship in the firm of Marks & Clerk, Patent Agents, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C., who selected him to proceed to New York on their business, where he remained for two years, and on returning to Newcastle became a Travelling Agent for Continental Hardware. He joined the Northumberland Yeomanry in 1909, and on the outbreak of war obtained a commission as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant 8 Oct. 1914; went to France in May, 1915; was promoted Lieutenant 9 June following, and died at a Casualty Clearing Station hospital 17 Nov. 1916, of wounds received in action. Capt. W.W. Gillum wrote: "I saw a good deal of him from July 1915, to March 1916, and he had the making of a very good officer. He took to the gunnery part of the business excellently, and I always knew I could rely on him when I wanted any shooting done." and Lieut. Ludovici: "He was a great help to all of us junior subalterns in the battery . . . . Your son did his dangerous duty nobly until the last." Unmarried.
Source: de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-18, part three, page 70.
Frederick Russell Curtice is remembered at Gosforth on G9.21, G9.22 and G9.23 and also at Jesmond on J1.04 and J1.19
