LEE Frederick Thomas

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Frederick Lee was born in Wollaston in October 1896. His father, Thomas, was an edge tool maker and by 1914 the family were living at 38 Enville Street, Stourbridge. He attended Wollaston School from 1904 to 1910 and was employed before the war as a fitter at the gas works. His younger brother, Bert, served in the West Surreys. Frederick volunteered on the 6th December 1914 and had seen nearly four years’ service. He served as a driver in the Army Service Corps and was sent to Salonika in the Balkan theatre, where he joined the 208th Horse Transport Company. Military action against Bulgaria had ceased by November 1918 but he caught pneumonia and was sent to a military hospital. Driver Frederick Lee died on the 8th November, five days before the Armistice with Germany. His younger brother, Bert, died six weeks earlier.