Frederick Van den Bok

Second Lieutenant Frederick Van den Bok was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, at Hackney, the son of Dutch-born merchant Adrianus and his wife Nelly Isabel Van den Bok, of Australia. Educated at Dulwich College, Van den Bok enlisted in September 1914, in the Public Schools' Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He obtained a commission in April 1915, in the Middlesex Regiment.The Times (41232), Col B, p. 6: "Fallen Officers". 29 July 1916.
Van den Bok died on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Somme Offensive, while serving with "A" Company, 2nd Middlesex on the Western Front. He had only arrived in France in May.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Van den Bok, Frederick, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
Category:1894 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Dutch descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Second Lieutenants