Frederick Albert Hayhoe

A Rifleman with the 10th Battalion, Frederick died on 20th of September 1917 at the age of 30.

Frederick was born at Lowestoft in 1887, a son of Frederick and Sarah A. Hayhoe. In 1891 they lived at 81 Cambridge Road. By 1901 they were living at 31 Edinburgh Road, and Frederick was a part-time barber’s assistant. In 1911 his parents lived at 24 Tennyson Road, and later his mother lived at 30 Mariners Street. In 1911 Frederick was a tinsmith, working at Smiths Fish Preserving Factory, and he lodged at 16 Market Place, Great Yarmouth.  

Frederick enlisted in the Army at Poplar, London. He joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, service number R/36743. On 13 January 1917 he was at the Rifle Depot and was posted to 8 Company. Subsequently he was posted to the 10th Battalion in France. By September 1917 Frederick was attached to the 59th Trench Mortar Battery. In mid-September 1917 the 59th Trench Mortar Battery were near Langemark, Belgium, and were targeting Eagle Trench, and particularly a concrete dugout in the trench, in preparation for an attack. 

On 20 September Lieutenant Barrett was killed and 12 men killed and wounded. Frederick was reported missing on 20 September, and later it was presumed that he had died of wounds on that date.