British Army Veterinary Corps
Frederick Owen MAYNARD
Captain
Died 12 January 1920 · Aged 31
His story
Captain Frederick Owen Maynard served in France from the commencement of the war and, in March 1917, was sent to Egypt and Palestine, where he served with the Indian Army.
At the war’s end, he volunteered for a further 12 months. He was travelling to Kantara before he departed for England when he was stricken with pneumonia and pleurisy and passed away at the 24th stationary Hospital Kantara on 12 January 1920. The Commonwealth War Grave Commission index to the Kantara Cemetery lists the cause of Maynard’s death as malaria.
Maynard’s obituary was published in the Veterinary Record on 7 February 1920.
Photographs and documents
Before the war
- Nationality
- British
- Date of Birth
- January 1888
- Place of Birth
- Romsey, Hampshire, England
- Veterinary College and Date of Graduation
- Royal Veterinary College - 1902
Military service
- Last Rank
- Captain
- Regiment/Service
- British Army Veterinary Corps
- First Theatre of War
- France 1914
Medals and commemoration
- Name on RCVS Honour Board
- Yes
- Name In Officers who died in Great War
- Yes
- Medals and Awards
- 1914/15 Star; British War Medal 1914-1918; Victory Medal
Death and burial
- Date of Death
- 12 January 1920
- Age at Death
- 31
- Place of Death
- Egypt
- Cause of Death
- Malaria
- Cemetery
- Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
- Location
- Kantara, Egypt
- Grave Reference
- A.139
- Commonwealth War Grave
- Yes - Standard CWGC Headstone
- Emblem or Badge on Headstone
- British Army Veterinary Corps
Connected men
- Archibald Wright CAMPBELLAlso buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
- Peter CRITCHLEYAlso buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
- Jack HILLIERAlso buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
- Frederick Dutson MOSSAlso buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Sources and further reading
- CWGC casualty and commemoration record
- The Veterinary Record, 7 February 1920 — cited in the earlier biography
Cite this biography
Graham Hodgkins and Pete Matthews, “Frederick Owen Maynard”, Veterinary Virtual War Memorial, https://vetsremembered.org/people/frederick_maynard/.
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