Key Information
Name: Frederick James Field
DoB:
Regt:
1/5 Battalion Queen’s Royal Regt. (West Surrey) Private 6105798
DoD: he died 30 Sept 1942 in the attack on Deil El Munassib.
aged 36
Buried/Commemorated: Alamein Memorial, Egypt Column 54
Other:
Academic Career: CGS 1918-24
Other:
Biographical Information
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Family Background:
He was one of three children. His sister Helen Mgt died unmarried in 1958
His brother George died in 1943, in the Royal Artillery, he’d been married less than a year. His wife gave birth to a posthumous daughter in late 1943. She was named Alder. She married Joseph Richardson in 1968.
Frederick married in 1938, Mary Delicia Fox, Mary gave birth to a posthumous son in early 1943. He was called Richard Humphrey. Mary was the executor for her sister in law Helen. Mary & Richard emigrated to Australia in 1952. They settled in Western Australia.