Frederick Claude Fox

A Civilian, Frederick died on 21st of August 1940 at the age of 39. 

Frederick was born at Lowestoft on 14 April 1901, a son of William Gilby and Edith Clara Fox. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 3 May 1901 and his family lived at 61 Stanley Street. William’s mother died and his father remarried. By 1911 his family were living at 247 Clapham Road. In 1913 they lived at 60 Sussex Road. Later his family moved to Tipton, Staffordshire, and in 1921 Frederick was lodging with William Devey at 20 Dudley Port, Tipton, and he worked as a turner with J. Devey, General Engineers, at Dudley Port. 

By 1925 Frederick, and his family, had moved back to the Lowestoft area. In 1925 Frederick married Olive D. G. Reeve: this was registered in the Mutford district. In 1939, Frederick, and family, lived at Braeside, The Street, Blundeston, and Frederick was a tool turner. 

Frederick served with the Heavy Rescue Service. He died, during an air raid, at the air raid shelter at the rear of Zephyr Engineering Limited, Freemantle Road. 

Frederick’s brother William served with the East Surrey regiment and died in 1918.