BORN HULL 23/06/1888. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HEALEY AND LILY HEALEY. SON OF A RAILWAY GUARD. EDUCATED AT SIR HENRY COOPER SCHOOL. FORMER CHECK CLERK AT HULL DOCKS. ENLISTED 08/09/1914. SENT TO FRANCE 13/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, 22/09/1917, AGED 29. HE MARRIED ON 06/05/1915. HIS WIFE LILY TUTE LIVED AT 3 WELLESLEY TERRACE, HESSLE ROAD AND THIS ADDRESS. AN OFFICER WROTE: “YOUR HUSBAND WAS AN ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS SOLDIER RESPECTED BY EVERYONE IN THE BATTALION, AND HIS EXAMPLE DID MUCH TO HOLD OUR BOYS TOGETHER. HE WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY BRAVE MAN AND AND DIED DOING HIS DUTY, AS HE WOULD HAVE WISHED. HE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED BY ALL THE NCO’S, OFFICERS AND MEN AS ONE OF THE BRAVEST.”
HIS DETAILS ARE FROM THE DE RUVIGNEY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4.
Healey, Fred
First name:
FRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
12052
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Date Died
22/09/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
29
9 DORSET GARDENS, BRUNSWICK AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
