LIEUTENANT FREDERICK THOMAS LEE ABBISS
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
27TH OCTOBER 1917 AGE 23
BURIED: WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE
Frederick Abbiss chose the same inscription for both his sons: Frederick Thomas Lee Abbiss who died of wounds in hospital at Wimereaux on 27 October 1917 aged 23, and John Lee Abbiss who "died of illness" in Baghdad on 25 July 1918 aged 21. Frederick himself, who had been a widower since 1901 when John was 3, died in 1934, before it was obvious that his sons' deaths had brought neither security nor peace. They were his only children.