FREDERICK CHARLES CRUMP

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.

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.

In 1940, Norwich, Norfolk, Frederick married Elsie May Lucas, born May 1920, Norwich, Norfolk. Employed at the Bottling Dept. – Brewery.