No.9058, Private, Frederick George CRACK
Aged 29
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Born George Frederick in 1890 (1stqtr Bury St.Edmunds 4a:763, only son of Henry and Rose CRACK (née CANDLER)
1891 census...Aged 1, he was at 17 College Street, Bury St.Edmunds with his father Henry CRACK [34] domestic horse keeper; his mother Rose [30]. All were born in Bury St.Edmunds. 1901 census...Aged 11, he was at 30 Hospital Road, Bury St.Edmunds with his grandfather James CRACK [66] road scraper, place of birt unkown; his grandmother Lucy [68] born Welnetham. 1911 census...Aged 21, a butcher, he was at 66 St.Andrews Street, Bury St.Edmunds with his parents (father now a painter and paper hanger); sister Ethel May [17] (general domestic). There was another sister, Laura [1891] (general domestic) His fther died in 1914 He married Ethel Hannah CHALLIS [12-12-1886] in Ipswich in 1915 and they lived at 41 Westgate Road, Bury St.Edmunds. Until his marriage he was George Frederick, from then he was Frederick George. |
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He enlisted in Ipswich. Dyin of wounds, with no service record available, it cannot be stated where or when he was wounded. However the day he died the battalion had just gone in Reserve after a busy few days in the battle at Morlancourt.
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