Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Glenarm New Cemetery | A. 58. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.122 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 32B GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | |||
Assistant Motor Engineer
Education & Career :
Mechanical Engineer, Gillingham (1914)
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: RFA Thrush |
| Action : Naval Campaign |
Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.
Detail :
[historicalrfa.org] Entry for RFA Thrush shows: "11 April 1917 foundered off County Antrim, Northern Ireland during a snow storm with the loss of eight members of the crew the rest being rescued by breeches buoy."
Amongst the 8 crew who drowned was Assistant Motor Engineer Frederick W Faircloth MMR. They are all buried in Glenarm Cemetery, County Antrim
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Beacon Court No. 1967 E.C. | East Kent |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
25th March 1914 | 22nd April 1914 | 17th June 1914 |
The registers of the United Grand Lodge show that Frederick goes into arrears of dues in 1918 and this ends with a note of "Exl Rule 175", which can only suggest there must have been no communication upon his death, but a secretarial return for the Roll of Honour.
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley