🌺 The Royal Marine who lied about his age to serve – The Story of Lance Corporal Frederick Ernest Gee Frederick was born on 14 October 1899 in Rochester, the son of John Thomas and Jane Elizabeth Gee, of 53 Cowper Road, Sittingbourne. He went to Holy Trinity School and later worked at the local paper mills. The Gee family was close, steady, and hardworking. But the war years brought heartbreak at home. In July 1916, Frederick’s little sister Doris, just nine years old, died from diphtheria — a