Name/Title
1928/Mack: Frederick William Mack, obituaryDescription
Photocopy of Frederick Mack's obituary in "Tobacco" He died on 1 May 1928, of pneumonia, having been in poor health for some years. He died in Eastbourne, where he lived, but his body was taken by train to Up Holland where he had grown up. Mourners met up at the platform at Euston before the train departed. Fred was buried at St Thomas graveyard, Upholland, where his father William Mack would be buried seven years later, in 1935.
Up Holland is about 18 miles north-east of Liverpool, where Fred began his career with Macleod, Reid, & Co, tobacco importers.
His Eastbourne address at the time of the funeral was "Woodlands", Meads Road, Eastbourne.