Frederick Hayter was born in 1897 in Islington, London, the fifth of the seven children of Frank Hayter (1858-1939) and Annie Hayter née Shepherd (1861-1947). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1897 in the Islington Registration District, London. On 3 August 1899, together with his sister Alice Mabel Hayter (1899-1983), he was baptised in St Peter's Church, Islington, where the baptismal register show their family was living at 12 Charlton Crescent, Islington and that their father was a porter.
In the 1901 census he is shown as Frederick Hayter, aged 4 years, and still living in three rooms at 12 Charlton Crescent, Islington, with his parents and five siblings: Percy Frank Hayter (1884-1917) - a venetian blind maker; Ethel May Hayter (1886-1975); Edith Blanche Hayter (1888-1977); Annie Ellen Hayter (1893-1978) and Alice Mabel Hayter (1899-1983). His father was described as an ironmonger's assistant.
When the 1911 census return form was completed by his father he was described as aged 14 years and a printer's readers boy, living in three rooms at 27 Camden Street, Islington, with his parents and five of his siblings: Ethel May Hayter - a laundry packer; Edith Blanche Hayter - a laundry packer; Annie Ellen Hayter - a milliner: Alice Mabel Hayter - at school and William Herbert Hayter (1901-1947) - at school. His father described himself as a gas fitter.
In December 1913 he was appointed as an Assistant Postman in the London Postal District.
On the outbreak of World War One he immediately joined the 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), service number 1895. In 1917 his four digit service number was changed to a six digit number and his was 370359. He was serving in the regiment's 2nd/8th Battalion when he was wounded in the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium and he died, 20 years, on 17 December 1917 in No.46 Casualty Clearing Station, Mendinghem, Proven, Belgium. His body was buried in Plot 6, Row BB, Grave 18 in the Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Roesbruggestraat, 8972 Poperinge, Belgium.
On 1 May 1918 his army effects totalling £10-19s-9d were sent his father who was also sent his £15-10s-0d war gratuity on 17 November 1919. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal (1914-1918) and the Victory Medal.
He is shown as 'HAYTER, F.' on the Western Postal District war memorial at Mount Pleasant, London, WC1. He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, on the Imperial War Museum Lives of the First World War website, on the A Street Near You website, on the London War Memorial website, on the Royal British Legion's Everyone Remembered website and on page 170 of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance's Book of Remembrance 1914-1920.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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