Frederick Meredith

FREDERICK MEREDITH

Frederick Meredith  joined the company in June 1937 as a waist laster in the leather factory department 434.

He married Edwina Eliza Sycamore in April 1941 in Brentwood. He was a very keen boxer with Bata.

He left the company in November 1940 for the Navy where he was a Leading Stoker with the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Aldenham.

Service No:  C/KX 119585

HMS Aldenham (Cdr. James Gerald Farrant, RN) was mined and sunk in the northeastern Adriatic Sea about 30 nautical miles north west of Zara in approximate position 44º30’N, 14º45’E. Five officers and 121 ratings were killed. Five officers (including the CO) and 58 ratings were picked up by HMS Atherstone. (https://uboat.net)

He died on Thursday 14th December 1944.

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