FREDERICK SPENCER HAMMOND
Remembered by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies with entrance gates, dedicated in May 1958, at Ransomes Sports’ Centre, Sidegate Avenue, Ipswich.
Born: 12th February 1905, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Died: 15th December 1942; age: 37; died of Acute Colitis, as a Japanese POW at Fukuoka #4 Camp, Moji City, Japan.
Captured: 8th March 1942 – Fall of Java.
Arrived at the Fukuoka #4 Camp 28th November 1942.
Residence: 53, Angel Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Occupation: Public Works Contractor’s Labourer at Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 1831445.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 35 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, 89 Battery.
The body was cremated and the ashes were added to Communal Urn No. 2 at Yokohama Cemetery. On the 11th October 1946, the No. 38 Australian War Graves Unit, of the Australian Military Forces removed the urn containing the ashes of 335 soldiers, sailors and airmen who died as Japanese POWs in Japan. 284 were identified by the particulars inscribed on the urn before re-burial at the British Section of Yokohama Cremation Memorial, and 51 remain unidentified.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 3.
Japan.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Bertie John & Minnie Ada Hammond, of Hadleigh, Suffolk; husband of Violet Ellen Rose Hammond, of Hadleigh, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1911 149, Angel Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Bertie John Hammond, 25, an Assistant Postman – G.P.O., born Hadleigh.
Minnie Ada Hammond (nee Durrant), 28, born Hadleigh.
Stella Cynthia Millicent Hammond, 3, born Hadleigh.
In 1927, Hadleigh, Frederick married Violet Ellen Rose Hynard, born April 1905, Hadleigh – daughter of James Hynard, a maltster, and Elizabeth Alice Hynard (nee Dyer), of 86, Angel Street, Hadleigh.
Violet and Frederick had one son:
Desmond James F. Hammond, born October 1929, Hadleigh.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939
Frederick was a Public Works Contractor’s Labourer. He lived with his wife and son at their family home – 53, Angel Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Violet, a Mattress Machinist.
Desmond, at School.
In June 2015, at James & Sons Auctioneers, Fakenham, Norfolk, Frederick’s collection of medals was sold – 1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star & 1939-1945 Medal in the box of issue + No Slip.
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