BORN GOOLE 1882. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. WIFE VIOLETTA BROWN & 4 CHILDREN ABOVE. A LABOURER. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT & FRANCE. SURVIVED THE BATT;ES OF THE SOMME AND OPPY WOOD. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/07/1917, AGED 35. HIS DEATH WAS REPPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 02/10/1917. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED BROWN 26637. Born in Goole in 1882, Fred was the third of seven children to William and Sarah Brown, both deceased by the time of the war. He married Violetta Wadsworth at Parish Church, Goole on 25th July 1903 and the couple lived at 8 Clive Avenue, Victor Street, Hull with their four children Gertrude, Florence, Earnest and John. An Engineer’s Labourer before the war, Fred enlisted in Beverley on 27th July 1916 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. He trained in England throughout 1916 before sailing from Withernsea for France on 20th December. He survived Oppy Wood but was killed in action in the trenches at Vimy Ridge on 2nd July 1917. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 35 years old, a father of four and a long way from home.
