Frederick Shone was the son of Lancelot Shone and Sarah Emma Taylor of Church Road, Buckley. Frederick was the father of Don Shone. His father Lancelot was the brother of Lily Shone, Peter Kelsall’s grandmother.

Frederick was born 29 March 1915 and baptized 22 April at St. Matthews. He had a brother Lance who later lived at the Chapel House with his aunt, Edna, custodian of St. John’s Congregational.

Frederick married Gladys Bronwen Davies in 1938. They had two children, Don born 1939 and Freda born 1940. In 1939 the family were living at 12 Drury Lane.

Frederick was killed in action in Burma 13 January 1945, age 29. As reported in the Chester Chronicle 10 February, he had served in the Army nearly five years and before joining up he had worked at the Standard Sanitary Pipe Works in Drury.

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Frederick was buried at Mandalay War Cemetery but his remains were later transferred to Taukkyan Military Cemetery. As explained by the CWGC: Taukkyan War Cemetery is the largest of the three war cemeteries in Burma (now Myanmar). It was begun in 1951 for the reception of graves from four battlefield cemeteries at Akyab, Mandalay, Meiktila and Sahmaw which were difficult to access and could not be maintained.

Frederick’s grave is marked with a stone tablet.

The personal inscription reads:

Out of a World of Sorrow

Into a Harbour of Joy

From a history on Wikipedia:

The 2nd Battalion had been retained in India but in October 1944 the battalion moved to Burma as part of the 62nd Indian Infantry Brigade attached to the 19th Indian Infantry Division where it joined the British Fourteenth Army, led by Bill Slim. The Battalion saw its bitterest fighting along the Taungoo–Mawchi Road where for a hundred miles, with deep jungle on either side, the Japanese defended vigorously all the way. In November the battalion crossed the Chindwin River at Sittang, captured Pinlebu and saw some very hard fighting on the Swebo Plain.