Commander Frederick Arthur Winter was born in East Bradiham in November 1861 and entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet aboard H.M.S. Britannia in October 1876. Advanced to Sub-Lieutenant in November 1880 and appointed to H.M.S. Agincourt in January 1882, he served in the Egypt operations of the same year and was present at Tel-el-Kebir, being one of just nine Sub-Lieutenants promoted to Lieutenant for 'the 11.7.1882 attack on the Egyptian forts and in subsequent operations in Egypt'. He was, moreover, one of those to be presented with the Egypt Medal by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 21.11.1882. Following a three year appointment in H.M.S. Pegasus, Winter joined H.M.S. Kingfisher and was present in the Witu operations of 1890 when he was Mentioned in Despatches as being 'in command of the machine-guns ashore'. Advanced to Commander in December 1895, and no doubt marked out for greater things, his promising career was cut short in July 1897, when he died while on the books of H.M.S. Hood.