Frederick was born in Kirkby, and by 1914 he and his wife Annie were living on Prescot Road, Melling. He enlisted in Maghull and fought with the King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regiment. Frederick died on Boxing Day, 1918, some six weeks after the signing of the Armistice. The circumstances of his death are not known. At the foot of his headstone in Duissans British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, his next of kin requested the epitaph – ‘Grant him, O Lord, eternal rest.’