Frederick James Kinge was the son of Frederick James and May Ellen Kinge (née Rustell) of Farringdon. One of five children, he was born in Newton Valence in 1893 but the family was in Selborne at the time of the 1901 census. Frederick was from South Warnborough and a navvy - possibly working on the Meon Valley Railway. Ten years later, they had moved down to the Droxford area.
Frederick joined the Hampshire Regiment as 9182 Private Kinge and was in W Company, 2nd Battalion. He went out to Gallipoli in April 1915 and died on 6th August the same year. The Alton Gazette announced in the ‘Roll of Glory’ for Farringdon - ‘Private F J Kinge, 2nd Hants, killed in the Dardenelles.’
He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the British War and Victory Medals and, by 1924, his parents were living in Upper Street in Farringdon. Private Frederick James Kinge is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey - Panel 125-134 or 223-226, 228-229 & 328.
Source: “The Remembered Ones of the Great War”, 2014, The Alton and Villages Local History Forum (with permission)
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