Fry, Frederick Samuel
Company Sergeant Major
No. L/5733, ‘B’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Died of wounds on Saturday 25 September 1915 (aged 35)
No known grave
Commemorated:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France (Panel 69 to 73)
Roll of Honour 1914 – 1918 for Groomsport Parish Church of Ireland Church
Journey of Remembering Belfast Book of Honour
BIOGRAPHY
In the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website it is recorded that Company Sergeant Major Frederick Samuel Fry (L/5733) was a son of the late Albert Edward and Harriett Annie Fry of Hartfield, Sussex. It is also recorded there that he was the husband of Alice Maud Fry of 4 Dromore Street, Cregagh, Belfast.
In the Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 – 1919 database it is recorded that Company Sergeant Major Frederick Samuel Fry (L/5733) was born in Hartfield, Sussex and he was a career soldier.
Frederick Samuel Fry and Alice Maud Witkowski were married on 16 June 1908 in St Barnabas’s Church of Ireland Church, Belfast. Frederick Samuel Fry, a Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment stationed in Victoria Barracks, Belfast was a son of Albert Edward Fry, a farmer (deceased). Alice Maud Witkowski who lived at 1 Parkend Street, Limestone Road, Belfast was a daughter of Quartermaster Sergeant William Rudolph Witkowski.
Frederick Samuel Fry and Alice Maud Fry (nee Witkowski) had at least four children:
Frederick William (born 25 March 1909 at 5 Parkend Street, Belfast; his father was a soldier based at Victoria Barracks, Belfast)
Edith May (born 12 February 1910 at Curragh, Co Kildare; her father was a soldier based at the Curragh, Co Kildare)
Albert Percy (born 7 September 1911 at Curragh, Co Kildare; his father was a soldier based at the Curragh, Co Kildare)
George Arthur (born 22 August 1915 at 25 Mount Collyer Avenue, Belfast; his father was a soldier on active service)
A stillborn male child was born on 22 August 1915 and was buried on 25 August 1915 in the Public Ground, Belfast City Cemetery.
Company Sergeant Major Frederick Samuel Fry (L/5733) was 35 when he died of wounds at Hulluch during the Battle of Loos and he has no known grave.
Company Sergeant Major Frederick Samuel Fry (L/5733) is commemorated on the Loos Memorial in France; in the Roll of Honour 1914 – 1918 for Groomsport Parish Church of Ireland Church and in the Journey of Remembering Belfast Book of Honour (Page 202).
Also commemorated in the Roll of Honour 1914 – 1918 for Groomsport Parish Church of Ireland Church is Quartermaster Sergeant W. Witskowski (Home Service).