FREDERICK JAMES LAWRENCE

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury – 1917

Born: 1897, Ipswich.

Died: 26th September 1917; age 19; KiA.

Residence: 34, Parade Road, Ipswich.

Date of Entry Therein; 27th July 1915 – France.

Rank: Driver; Service Number: 51451

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery ‘C’ Battery, 83rd Brigade.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.

Grave Reference:

II.C.20.

Gwalia Cemetery,

West-Vlaanderen,

Belgium.

Relatives Notified & Address: Eldest son of Josiah & Alice Lawrence, of 34, Parade Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1901   33, Upland Road, Ipswich.

Frederick was 3 years old and living with his parents & brother.

Josiah Lawrence, 29, a Builder & Contractor – employer, born Ipswich.

Alice Lawrence (nee Last), 28, born Ipswich.

Percy Josiah Lawrence, 1, born Ipswich.

1 domestic nurse.

1911   34, Parade Road, Ipswich.

Frederick was 13 years old and living with his parents, siblings & paternal grandmother.

Josiah, 39, a Jobbing Builder – employer.

Alice, 38.

Percy, 11.

Dorothy May Lawrence, 9, born Ipswich.

Frank Stanley Lawrence, 6, born Ipswich.

Alice Nellie Lawrence, 4, born Ipswich.

Agnes Minnie Lawrence, 3, born Ipswich.

Josiah C. Lawrence, 9 months, born Ipswich – 1912, Ipswich.

Emma Lawrence, 62, a widow, living on Private Means, born Aldeburgh.

Soldiers’ Effects to Josiah Lawrence – father.

Frederick is also remembered on the war memorial at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich.

Royal Field Artillery ‘C’ Battery, 83rd Brigade: