Mr Frederick Charles Sawyer was born at Malshanger Cottage, Hannington, Hampshire, England on 7 October 1888.

He was the son of Edward Joseph Sawyer (1861-1947) and Jane Drewitt (1858-1910). His father was a native of Figheldean, Wiltshire, and his mother from Hannington, Hampshire, and they were married in Hampshire in 1885. He had one brother, William John (b. 1887).

Frederick is first recorded on the 1891 census when he and his family are living at Malshanger Cottages, Hannington and his father was described as a carter. This address would be Fred's family home for the rest of his life, and he appears here again on the 1901 census, albeit incorrectly listed as Edward and described as a schoolboy aged 12.

Frederick lost his mother Jane towards the end of 1910, and in the following 1911 census, his widowed father, now a waggoner, and his brother William, a farm labourer, are still living at Malshanger. Frederick is listed elsewhere as a boarder at 2 Acre Cottages, Slade Green, Kent and is described as a gardener and unmarried.

He boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a third class passenger (ticket number 342826, £8, 1s) and was travelling to Halley, Michigan.

Sawyer died in the sinking. His body was recovered by the MacKay Bennett (#284). He was buried at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia on 10 May 1912.

His father continued to live in and around Hannington and died in 1947 aged 85.