F.C. Middleton
Medal Card
Northumberland Fusiliers Badge
Margaret Allison states that he lived in Choppington and was aged 29 when he died.
Derek Johnstone has provided the following:
Frederick Charles Middleton was born October 21st 1886 and baptised February 20th 1887 at Alnmouth, Northumberland. His parents were Charles Middleton from Hertfordshire and Esther Middleton (nee Walby) from Wandsworth, London.
In 1891 Frederick Charles Middleton was 4 years old and living with his family at Coastguard Station, Alnmouth, where his father is a boatman with Coastguard.
By 1901 Frederick’s family lived at Choppington, Northumberland where, at the age of 14 he was employed in the coal mines. His father at this time was also working in the coal mines and there were 8 siblings in the household. Before the 1911 Census, Frederick married Isabella from Byker, and was living at 1, Carr’s Buildings, Scotland Gate, Choppington when the census took place. Frederick, now 24, worked as an underground labourer in the coal mines.
Military records show Frederick enlisted at Ashington and was the father of two children, John Alexander and Charles Crawford. His effects went to his widow Isabella who later remarried and became Mrs Isabella Ord.
Frederick Charles Middleton is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43 and in the Battalion History