Frederick Charles Cammell was born in 1892, at Hopton, in Suffolk, the fourth of seven children to Thomas Holden Cammell (a threshing contractor and later inn keeper), and Edith Cammell (née Cater), of Hopton. He was baptised on 7 May, 1893, at All Saints Church, in Hopton. They lived at Fen Street in Hopton in 1901, and ten years later at The Greyhound Inn in Hopton, the father then being the inn keeper. Frederick Charles Cammell became a threshing engine driver, which clearly influenced the corps into which he was enlisted.

Frederick Charles Cammell attested on 11 December, 1915, at Hopton, in Suffolk, and the next day he was posted to the Reserve. It was over five months before he was mobilised, on 2 May, 1916, at Hopton.

He served as a Private, No. M2/222982, and was posted to the Grove Park Motor Transport Depot of the Army Service Corps. His service was to last just six days! On 5 May, 1916, he was admitted to hospital in a maniacal state due to drinking, and three days later, on Monday, 8 May, 1916, he died at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, of cardiac failure due to alcoholic mania. He was aged 23.

(Although his service record survives showing his rank as Private and No. M2/222982, his entry in the Soldiers' Effects List shows his rank as recruit and is unnumbered, and the report into his death shows No. 23835.)

Frederick Charles Cammell was buried at Hopton burial ground, the Hopton Methodist churchyard. His grave is marked by a private memorial.

He is also commemorated on the Hopton war memorial, in All Saints' churchyard, as 'CAMMELL F. C. PTE. R.A.S.C.' (Note without a service number, and it should be A.S.C., the designation of the corps at the time of his death.) 

He is also commemorated on the Great War Roll of Honour within All Saints' Church, as 'Cammell, Charles' and 'Died in service'.