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FREDERICK ROBERT CROFT
BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JOHN SIMPSON CROFT AND THE LATE ELIZA CROFT, OF 1 OCKTON GRANGE, GANTON, NEAR SCARBOROUGH. A FARMER'S SON.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 29/03/1915, AGED 21 YEARS AND 5 MONTHS. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5133, 3/4TH EYR. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 05/07/1916. JOINED THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 08/09/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/11/1916, AGED 23. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 223 DAYS.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, JOHN. HE LEFT 2 BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, HULL.
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