Rank: Leading Seaman
Ship: HMS Achilles
Parents: Mr William Markwick & Mrs Mary Ann Mercy Kedge
Home Address: 6 Duke Street, Silverhill
Other Info: Lost off of HMS Achilles on 26th October 1915. According to CWGC, Frederick is remembered at Portsmouth Naval Memorial, on panel 7.
Published: December 1915 in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer.
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This man was 2 weeks old in the 1881 census at 24 Alma Terrace, St Leonards, close to the later Duke Street address. Father was a retired licensed victualler, which is odd as he was only 28. There was a "monthly nurse" in the household, who was there for a month to help out the mother after childbirth.
This means that the assertion in navy records that he was born 21 March 1882 is incorrect. It was 1881.
In the 1911 census the parents were at 6 Duke Street, a 4 room household. Father was a general labourer, mother was an ironer. He died in about 1919. The mother died in 1939 in north London.
There were four children, all alive by the 1911 census. A brother was Leonard Richmond Kedge who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in World War I and died in 1965 in London.