Joseph, and Frederick Arthur Wherrett, the two youngest sons of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Wherrett,were born at Hope House Farm, Cambridge, Gloucestershire. The Wherretts were an old and well respected local yeoman family who had thirteen children, eight girls and five boys, one of whom died in infancy. Their mother died in 1897, and their father in an accident in 1914. The brothers attended the old Slimbridge school, but were also expected to help on the farm whenever they were needed. Frederick was known as a man of high principles and character and much beloved by all. He was baptised on 9 June 1895 and enlisted in 1914 aged 19, firstly in the Gloucestershire Yeomanry and was latterly transferred to the 2ndBattalion, Worcestershire Regiment.   Little is known about his service in the army other than on 1 November 1916, having been on the front line in France for a very short time, he was very badly wounded and was sent home to the Hampstead Military Hospital. After much suffering, patiently borne, he died very peacefully from heart failure following an operation on the 20th June 1917.   Frederick was buried, with full military honours, in the family grave in Slimbridge churchyard. Men of the Worcestershire Hussars helped to bear him to his last resting place and a firing party from the barracks was present to pay a tribute, after which the last post was sounded.

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