Frederick Edmund Crake

A Private with the 9th Battalion, Frederick died on 12th of September 1917 at the age of 27. 

Frederick, also known as Freddie, was born at Pakefield on 5 April 1890, a son of Benjamin and Ada Crake. In 1891 his family lived at 86 Pakefield Street, where his father kept a butcher’s shop. This was his parents’ home throughout Frederick’s life. On 1 July 1895 Frederick became a pupil at Kirkley School and, on 13 April 1904, he became a pupil at Lowestoft School of Science. In 1911 Frederick was a butcher’s assistant and believed to have worked with his father.