In Tweedmouth Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

E. Friec
Stoker 1st Class, R.N.
P/KX. 90272
H.M.S. “Victory”
27th March 1942

The Berwick Advertiser 02/04/1942 reports:-
MILITARY HONOURS AT FUNERAL OF GUERNSEY SAILOR
A seaman whose home is in German occupied Guernsey, Channel Islands, was buried with full military honours Tweedmouth Cemetery on Wednesday. He is Stoker (First Class) Ernest Le Friec, R.N., brother of Sergt. Friec, K.O.S.B., who is serving at the I.T.C., Berwick.

A native of Guernsey, Chanel Islands, Stoker Le Friec, who was 47, joined the navy at the outbreak of the last war in 1914. He served throughout the last war, taking part in the actions at Jutland and the Dogger bank, and later at the Dardanelles.

At the end of the war he was serving aboard H.M.S. Cardiff, which was one of the ships under Admiral Beattie which escorted the German navy into Scapa Flow after the Armistice. He was awarded the Good Conduct and the Long Service Medals as well as the usual Great War Medals.

During the present war he saw service in the Mediterranean and the North Sea and took part in the epic battle of Narvic and later was present at the naval action with the French Fleet at Dakar at the capitulation.

Stoker Le Friec became well known in the Berwick district and spent many of his leaves in the town.

The funeral took place at Tweedmouth Cemetery, when a party of Naval ratings under Lt.-Commander Southey acted as pallbearers while a squad of Sergeants under C.S.M Sharpe KOSB escorted the coffin to the cemetery. Reveille and Last Post were sounded by Pte. Caufield, KOSB while Piper Laidlaw KOSB played a lament. The RAF were represented by Sgt. Pilot Westle.

CWGC has mistakenly said that his name was Eric. Ernest’s brother was the CSM with the KOSB and died in 1947 in Guernsey.

Ernest Le Friec is remembered in our List of Ships’ Crews.