Frederick Cecil Ward
Lapring Bearings Machinist, Ransome & Marles
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Son of Frederick William and Mary Jane Ward, of Cranmer Road, Newark; husband of Madeline Ada Ward, nee Dickinson of 43 Grove Street , New Balderton, Newark. Married 1942.
21 Medium & Heavy Training Regiment RA. 4/12/1941
1 Mountain Regiment RA. 4/4/1942
3 Mountain Regiment RA. 1/12/1942
Y List. 8/5/1944
RA Depot. 25/5/1944
Y List. 12/9/1944
Discharged unfit 31/10/1944
Died 04.40 Nottingham General Hospital 22/11/1944 from a Pulmonary Embolism, right side after a recent operation for Pyloric Stenosis.
Official Discharge 28/11/1944.
Grave WH 317 Newark Cemetery.
Also remembered on the grave is;
VICTOR WARD
Rank: Trooper
Service No: 19015757
Date of Death: 20/04/1947
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Royal Armoured Corps 9th Queen's Royal Lancers
Grave Reference: 9. G. 4.
Cemetery: RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY Palestine
Additional Information: Son of F. W. Ward and Mary Jane Ward, of 3 Rutland Avenue, Newark, Nottinghamshire. Died of gunshot wounds. Violence in the Mandatory Palestine increased when Dov Gruner a Hungarian Jew and ex WW2 British soldier in the Jewish Brigade. Along with Yehiel Dresner, Mordechai Alkahi and Eliezer Kashani of the Irgun, Zionist terrorist organisation were hung at Acre prison 16/4/1947. (https://vgy.me/u/AZuQ0B)
Photo of Frederick Cecil Ward
Photo; Shaun Noble
Photo of Frederick Cecil Ward
Photo: Shaun Noble