Person    | Male  Born 3/9/1894  Died 2/1/1918

Officer's Cook 3rd Class Frederick Charles Hayes

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Officer's Cook 3rd Class Frederick Charles Hayes

Frederick Charles Hayes was born on 3 September 1894 in Stepney, London, the son of Frederick Thomas Hayes (b.1870) and Minnie Eugene Hayes née Weinberg (1874-1935). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1894 in the Mile End Old Town registration district, London.

In the 1901 census he is shown as aged 7 years, living in 35 Beachcroft Buildings, Cable Street, Tower Hamlets, London, with his parents. His father was described as a shipwright and boatbuilder.

On 23 October 1912 he joined the Royal Navy, service number Portsmouth L.4089, giving his occupation as a shipwright. He was rated as an Officer's Steward 3rd Class and was posted to the newly commissioned HMS Maidstone, a submarine depot ship.

He was taken ill with appendicitis and taken to the RN Hospital Shotley, Babergh, Suffolk, where he died, aged 23 years, on 2 January 1918 from peritonitis. His death was registered in the 1st quarter of 1918 in the Samford registration district, East Suffolk. His body was buried on 9 January 1918  in Plot D, Grave 3182 in the Ladywell Cemetery, Ladywell Road, Lewisham, London, SE13 7HY. As he has no headstone on his grave he is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's screen wall in Ladywell Cemetery.

He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918.

He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website and on the Lewisham War Memorials website.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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