Serjeant FREDERICK CYRIL CROCKER
Last address in Lewis: 18 Newton Street
Son of Lieut. John Crocker, R.N. and Mrs. Crocker, of Claremont, Portishead, Somerset; husband of Janet Crocker, of 46, Ailsa St. East., Girvan, Ayrshire.
Service unit: "A" Coy. 1st/6th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Service number: 1865
Date of death: 1 June 1915 at the age of 27
Killed in action
Interred: Ipswich Old Cemetery, grave K. 14. 12A.
He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers at the beginning of 1914. volunteered for Imperial service when war began, was severely wounded in action at St. Julien, 26 April, 1915, while leading the platoon in a bayonet charge after his platoon officer, Lieut. Garton, had fallen, and died in the East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich on 1st June, following.
Frederick appears in the 1901 census for Lerwick, Shetland, as a 13-year old scholar. He is the son of John Crocker (45), the Chief Officer at Fort Charlotte in that town; his mother is Annie (40). Frederick is one of seven children, Annie M (20), Beatrice (17), Edith M (15), William C (10), Violet C (3) and Eric A H (1 month).
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