Frederick Michael Warren

Lance Bombadier - Service No. 993938 - 185 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Frederick Michael Warren, the only child of Michael Carr Warren and his wife Emily Jane (Nash), was born on 27th December 1911 in Swardeston, Norfolk. Michael and Emily had set up home at 'Bescot', a substantial house beside the turnpike now named The Red House, which they had bought on 11th October 1907 at the time of their marriage. Michael was born in Norwich and still worked there as a Hatter's Furrier, employing a number of people.

In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of war, Frederick Warren married Marion Louise Griffiths in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and the couple moved into No.44 Rosemary Road in Sprowston, Norwich.

Frederick joined the 185th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and undertook basic training at their permanent base at R. A. Camp Penclaydd near Swansea and at various other locations around the UK. In April 1943 his unit moved via Fylingdale and Otterburn to a camp at Stewarton, a few miles south-west of Glasgow. While there Frederick was taken ill and sent to Ballochmyle Hospital near Glasgow where he unfortunately died on May 9th 1943 after 8 days vomiting blood caused by a chronic gastric ulcer. Frederick's body was returned to his wife and he was buried at the church of St. Mary & St. Margaret in Sprowston.  

After the war Frederick's widow Marion married Mieczyslaw Jachnik on 10th February 1947 in Norwich. They had two sons Ryszard (1948) and Jan (1949). In 1959 the family of four emigrated to Australia but at some stage returned to the UK. Mieczyslaw died in Brighton in 1973 and Marion in Beaworthy, Devon, in 2002. Both sons married, one moving to Devon and the other to Kincardineshire, Scotland. 

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