BORN BARTON ON HUMBER, LINCS, ON 28/12/1883. SON OF THOMAS HOLLAND (1859-1908 AND MARIA WHELDON EASTON, (1860-1915), OF BARTON
MARRIED AT ROWLEY, ON 8TH MAY 1909. HUSBAND OF LOUISA JANE (SNOW) & THREE DAUGHTERS, LIVED AT WEST BULL COTTAGE, HULL ROAD, HULL AND 12 WORTHING STREET, HULL.
A FARM LABOURER, AT EPPLEWORTH COTTINGHAM (1911 CENSUS). THEN WORKING FOR MR STEPHENSONS, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL, BEFORE THE WAR.
DESCRIBED AS F FFOT, 10 INCHES TALL, 38-40 INCH CHEST, 147 LBS WEIGHT, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELPOMENT,
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 19/05/1915. APPOINTED PAID LANCE CORPORAL, ON 8/2/1916. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/3/1916. SERVED WITH THE7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
REPORTED WOUNDED (Hull Daily Mail 07 September 1916). LATER KILLED ON 10/07/1916. AGED 29. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS PREGNANT WIFE, LOUISA JANE AT 12 WORTHING STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE NEVER SAW HIS SON FREDERICK GEORGE HOLLAND BORN ON 8TH OF NOVEMBER 1916. HIS WIDOW REMARRIED, BECAME MRS WATSON AND MOVED TO SOWERBRIDGE, YORKSHIRE WHEN SHE RECEIVED FRED’S BRONZE PLAQUE.
