Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
PD. He was the son of Hugh Andrews, born, 11th February 1837 in London and baptised on the 20th April 1837 in St. Matthew’s Parish Church, London and his wife Mary Eliza Andrews (nee Hancock) born in 1848 in Gloucestershire. Frederick George was born on the 2nd December 1870 in Christchurch, New Zealand, he had the following siblings, Mary Laura, Florence Emma, Ethel Aileen and Albert Harold. Frederick was educated at Christ College, Wellington, New Zealand and prior to the war he had been engaged as a farmer and Shire horse breeder living in Hallaton in Leicestershire, whilst in New Zealand he had held the rank of Captain in the Christchurch Rifle Volunteers. His widowed mother latterly resided at 76, West Hill, Sydenham, London, and his sister Mary Andrews resided at 102, Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex.
Frederick’s Army enlistment documents were not researched, and as such all that is known of his military service is that he was commissioned into the King’s Liverpool Regiment, and was posted as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 4th Battalion, being subsequently transferred and attached to the 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, and it was with this unit that he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 1st October 1914. He was awarded the 1914 STAR, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
On Friday November 20th 1914 The Leicester Journal published the following article under the heading. “THE ROLL OF HONOUR.” – News was received on Saturday that Captain Andrews, of Horninghold, who joined the North Lancashire Regiment, was killed in France on October 21st. Captain Andrews, of Andrews, Fletcher and Part., stock brokers, was well known in the Hallaton district, and his death so soon after landing in France will be much regretted.
The War Diary records: 21 Oct-14 – Further heavy attack and considerable casualties – Captain GIBSON killed. Captain COLVILE, Lieutenant’s TAYLOUR, MEREDITH, ANDREWS, CLARKE and THORPE and large number of men reported missing.
Remainder of Battalion withdrawn from trenches and place in billets near Western Edge of BOIS de RICH.
Heavy attack at night on right of 14th Infantry Brigade.
FOOTNOTE: Volume 1 of Hallaton and the Great War – Service and Sacrifice, contains a highly recommended and thoroughly well researched and detailed account of Frederick’s life.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Photograph taken from Hallaton War Memorial Exhibition, 2018

Educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch NZ. He also served in the Christchurch Rifle Volunteers as a lieutenant and captain. He left New Zealand in 1902 and came to England where he worked as a schoolmaster and tutor to Cecil Fletcher, whose father lived at Hallaton Hall. With a complete change of direction, together the two of them in partnership with another Hallaton man, FAH Part successfully bred shire horses. He volunteered immediately on the outbreak of war, lying about his age and stating that he was aged 34 not 44. The Hallaton doctor, who was also the Medical Officer of the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment apparently connived in this as he countersigned Andrew’s attestation papers and medical report. He was attached to 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment when he was killed near Hinges. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial to the Missing between Béthune and Armentières in the Pas de Calais and also on a brass plate in St. Michael & All Angels Church, Hallaton and the village war memorial.

Information and photographs supplied by Dennis Kenyon.