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2832 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Frederick Barber, known as Fred was born in Ballingdon, Sudbury in 1894, one of seven children of Walter and Sarah Ann Barber. His father was a carman for a local miller, and the family lived at 6 Cross Street. By 1911 Frederick was employed as a clerk to an agricultural engineer.
He enlisted in Sudbury and served with the 5th Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, the local Territorial battalion whose headquarters was the Drill Hall in Gainsborough Street.
At the outbreak of war the battalion had been mobilised and sent to the east coast to build defences to protect it from possible invasion.
Frederick died aged 20 on 18 December 1914 at Burleigh House, Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is not known what he died of at the present time. He was buried in Sudbury Cemetery on 24 December 1914. (Plot H 179) and is also remembered on the Baptist Church Memorial in Church Street.
A Cross of Remembrance is laid by his grave every year at Remembrancetide.
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