Freda Coralie Martha Coates
Ferry Inn 1941 credit:Steve Smith
A Wren with H.M.S. Minos, Freda died on 26th of April 1941, aged 35.
Freda was born at Lowestoft on 26 May 1905, a daughter of William Alexander and Alice Elizabeth Coates. She was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 15 June 1905 and her family lived at 45 Princes Road and this was still her family home in 1939.
Freda joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service and was posted to H.M.S. Minos at Lowestoft.
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She and 21 service personnel and civilians were enjoying a drink in in the Ferry Inn, Horning, Norfolk in the evening of Saturday 26 April 1941 when a lone German bomber released his remaining bomb load at 21.44 hrs and one made a direct hit on the inn. CREDIT:MilitaryImages.net
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Lived at
Freda Coates
45
Princes Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
52.4834741, 1.7449486
CountryOfService
United Kingdom
BranchService
Naval
Regiment
Womens Royal Naval Service
ServiceNumber
3339
Burial/Memorial
United Kingdom
LOWESTOFT (ST. MARGARET) CHURCHYARD
Sec. 1. Row E. Grave 20.
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