Notes
Recovered 21.08.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/694134/frederick-hallett/
PRIVATE FREDERICK HALLETT
Service Number: 10138
Dorsetshire Regiment 5th Bn.
Date of Death 21 August 1915
Commemorated at HELLES MEMORIAL
http://www.piddlevalley.info/history_great_war.php#7
FREDERICK HALLETT was from Piddletrenthide. Mention has already been made of another HALLETT, HENRY ROBERT, the young sailor killed when HMS Bulwark blew up in November 1914 (see November/December 2014 above). The boys were twins, born in 1895 and christened in All Saints Church on Christmas Day that year. One can imagine what a joyful occasion that christening must have been, not only for the parents, William and Eliza, but for the whole village.
The Hallett family lived at Well Bottom, near Incombe Copse, where a beef unit stands today. The twins were followed by a sister, Kate, in 1898 and a younger brother, Douglas William, in 1899.
We cannot conceive the anguish suffered in that lonely cottage at Well Bottom when both sons were killed within 10 months of each other. They had not reached their 20th birthday and neither had a grave for the family to mourn over.
The names on the Memorial Hall plaques are in alphabetical order until the letter 'H' is reached. If the alphabet had been strictly followed, Frederick Hallett would have appeared at the bottom of one plate and his brother Henry Robert would have been at the top of the other. How thoughtful of the first Memorial Hall Committee to slightly rearrange the order so that the twins' names appear next to each other.