Image from the Evening Star – 18th February 1942.
Frederick is not remembered on the memorial at Christchurch Park.
Born: 1911, 154, Handford Road, Ipswich.
Died: 22nd January 1942; age: 30; Killed in Action during the fighting for Singapore/Malaya.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 796308.
Regiment: Royal Norfolk Regiment, 6th Battalion.
Final resting place unknown.
Memorial Reference:
Column 50.
Kranji,
Singapore.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Charles & Florence Crump; husband of Elsie May Crump, of Lakenham, Norfolk.
Father: Charles Frederick Crump, born November 1878, St. Gregory’s, Canterbury, Kent. A Coal Porter.
Mother: Florence Cecilia Crump (nee Anson), November 1885, Ipswich. An Office Cleaner.
Crump family home – 18, Shakespeare Road, Ipswich.
In 1940, Norwich, Norfolk, Frederick married Elsie May Lucas, born May 1920, Norwich, Norfolk. Employed at the Bottling Dept. – Brewery.
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