Frederick Louis Beard

A Private with the Pioneer Corps, Frederick died on 4th of August 1943 at the age of 35. 

Frederick was born at Beccles on 9 June 1908, a son of Louis and Edith Mary Beard. In 1911 his family lived at The Suffolk Inn, Station Road, Beccles, where is father was the publican. 

Frederick was living at 42 Denmark Road, and working as a shop assistant, when he married Ena Mary Artis, at Saint John's Church, on 23 July 1931. Ena lived at 'Trvone', Colville Road, Oulton Broad. In 1939 they had a home at 54 Beresford Road, Lowestoft. Ena worked as a nurse at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. 

Frederick was one of six men of the Pioneer Corps who were reported 'missing believed killed' on 4 August 1943. Later it was determined that Frederick and Private A.G. Auger had been accidentally killed in that date.