Frederick Sparrow

A Private with the 2nd Battalion, Frederick died on 14th of June 1917 at the age of 39. 

Frederick was born at Lowestoft in 1878, a son of Henry A. and Harriet Sparrow. In 1881 his family lived at 2 Saint Margaret’s Road, Lowestoft. In 1891 they lived at 5 Ingate Road, Beccles. By 1901 they were living at 233 Clapham Road, Lowestoft, and Frederick was a coach trimmer, and this was still their home in 1911 and Frederick was still working as a coach trimmer.

Frederick enlisted in the Army at Bury St. Edmunds. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 4272. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion, in France, and renumbered 40894. 

Frederick died of wounds on 14 June 1917. There are no specific records of how, or when, he was wounded, but the 2nd Battalion’s war diary records no casualties between 1 and 13 June and it is possible that Frederick was wounded during the 2nd Battalion’s attack on Hook Trench and Long Trench, near Arras, that began on 14 June. 

Between 14 and 19 June 1917 the 2nd Battalion’s casualties were:
Officers: six killed, five wounded
Other ranks: 56 killed, 183 wounded, 2 missing