No.204608, Private, Fred LISTER
Aged 32
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Fred Lister was born in Cockfield ( 1st qtr 1886 Cosford 4a:691), son of George and Sarah Jane LISTER (née ANDREWS).
1891 census...Aged 5, he was at Button's Green, Cockfield with his father George LISTER [41] farm labourer born Preston, Suffolk; his mother Jane [38]; brothers Amos [7] and Arthur [7]; sisters Louise [9] and Kate [2]; grandmother, widow, Sarah Anne MOORE [70]. All except his father and grandmother were born in Cockfield. 1901 census...Aged 15, farm labourer, he was still at Button's Green with his parents (father now a shepherd, mother now recorded as born in Melford); brother Arthur (farm labourer); sister Kate. 1911 census...Aged 26, a farm labourer, he was still at Button's Green with his parents and brother Arthur. The pension card has his mother at Button's Green, Cockfield, later moving to Windsor Green, Cockfield. |
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He enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds. Courcelles-le-Comte was taken by the 3rd Division on 21st August 1918 and the cemetery was set up at the end of the month.
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