Evening Telegraph, Friday 2^nd January 1942, transcribed by Clive Wood.

Rushden Naval Cook Missing

A telegram which arrived on Monday has informed Mr. and Mrs. Fred Farrington, of 55, Little-street, Rushden, that their second son, Clifford George Farrington, who has been serving as a cook in the Royal Navy, is “missing, presumed killed”. A letter which arrived on Wednesday in confirmation stated that it was feared that there could be no hope that he was still alive.

Cook C. G. Farrington had his twenty-first birthday in April last, having joined the Navy on November 5^th, 1940. He is a native of Rushden and used to attend South End School. He had also been in the choir at St. Mary’s Church.

The eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Farrington, Ronald, has recently been invalided out of the Army as a result of shrapnel wounds in the leg, received at Dunkirk, and the younger boy, Fred, is serving in the Marines. There is also a daughter.