Frederick George Durrant was one of 8 sons born to one of my Great Grandfathers on the maternal side of the family. All eight boys enlisted to fight in the Great War but only 5 returned safely home at the end of the war. Frederick George was serving in the 9th Battalion of the Essex Regiment in France and was killed on 22nd August 1918. His body was not found; he is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France.

Roger Phillpotts