Fargus F B A Lt 9th London Regiment
LIEUTENANT F. B. A. FARGUS
9ти (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTALION, THE LONDON REGIMENT (QUEEN VICTORIA’S RIFLES), T.F.
FREDERICK BRIAN ARTHUR FARGUS was the younger son of Henry Robert Fargus, to Lancaster Place, Strand, and of Milton House, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex.
He entered the School in 1901, and left in 1904.
Having been articled to his father he was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 1911. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion of the London Regiment in 1911, and Lieutenant in 1912. He proceeded with his Battalion to the Front on November 4th, 1914, as Senior Subaltern in command of the Machine Gun Section.
He was shot in the forehead by a German sniper on January 1st, 1915, at La Petite Douve, Wolverghem, Flanders. Age 27.
The Officer Commanding his Battalion wrote:-
“One and all of us will miss his cheerful, bright presence, and his devotion to his duties has been a bright example to us all, and as for his gun team, they absolutely loved him, in fact worshipped him. He was so devoid of fear that he was invaluable in patrolling and reconnoitring.”
A Non-Commissioned Officer of his section wrote:-
“He was absolutely a man after our own hearts, and we are proud to know that he died in wandering about among his Infantry, putting courage into them under shell fire.”
And another soldier said:-
“Not only have we lost a man who was an ideal Officer and a good soldier, but we have lost a personal friend, for he was never so happy as when he was with the section or doing something for us.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1