FREDERICK CHARLES CRUMP

Frederick’s portrait and profile will be displayed at a V.J. Day exhibition, “Be Ye Men of Valour“, from Saturday, 9th August to Monday, 25th August (Bank Holiday) 2025, at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich, IP4 2BT.

Photograph courtesy of Glynis

Image from the Evening Star – 18th February 1942.

Frederick is not remembered on the memorial at Christchurch Park.

Born: 5th April 1911, at 154, Handford Road, Ipswich.

Died: 22nd January 1942; age: 30; Killed in Action at Yong Peng, Malaya during the fighting against the Japanese.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 796308.

Regiment: Royal Norfolk Regiment, 6th Battalion.

The final resting place is unknown.

Memorial Reference:

Column 50.

Singapore Memorial,

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.

CENSUS

1921   132, Handford Road, Ipswich.

Frederick was 10 years old and lived with his parents and sisters.

Charles Crump, 42, a General Labourer – Ipswich Corporation.

Florence Crump, 35, Domestic Duties – at home.

Helena Louise Crump, 13, born Ipswich.

Katherine Rosina Crump, 9, born Ipswich.

Primrose Monastiar Crump, 4, born Ipswich.

In 1940, in Norwich, Norfolk, Frederick married Elsie May Lucas, who was employed at the Bottling Dept. – Brewery, born May 1920, Norwich, Norfolk – daughter of Arthur Raymond Lucas, and Lily Rose Howard, of Norwich.