1939
Frederick Stearn, b 1889, labourer gas works ARP
Florence M Stearn, b 1891
Their son, George, was a private in the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He was captured by the Japanese in Singapore and died, cause unknown, at Takanun in Thailand on 13th Sep 1943.
(For more information on the Cambridgeshire Regiment in WWII read ‘Battalion at War – Singapore 1942’ by Michael Moore, Gliddon Books 1988)
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