Our Fallen
People of Lowestoft 1914-45
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1939 Register

The 1939 Register provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. As the 1931 census for England and Wales was destroyed by fire during the Second World War and no census was taken in 1941.

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Ferry Inn 1941

Freda Coralie Martha Coates

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.  1939 Register, nopic