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Pte. Frederick Charles "Fred" Drew
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Morchard Bishop, Devon
(d.16 August 1917)
Frederick Charles Drew was born at Morchard Bishop in Devon in Q3 1892. By 1911 he was a butcher's assistant to his uncle at Worle, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. He enlisted into the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton (date unknown) as a private, no 26403. At an unknown date he was transferred to the 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusilers (reg no 40551)and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 70-72 at the Tyne Cott Memorial and on the parish War Memorial at Morchard Bishop