McCloud, Frederick

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FREDERICK McCLOUD 11796. Born in January 1884, Frederick was the ninth of ten children to William and Mary Ann McCloud. He married Susan Hannah Boardman in July 1906 and the couple lived at 3 Church Row, Cleveland Street, Hull with their three children William, Lilian and Susan. A Warehouse Labourer by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. At some stage he was taken prisoner on the Somme and transported back to Germany where he was set to spend the rest of the war a captive. Fred was a prisoner of war for 2 years and died 23/7/1918 in a German hospital. Whether this was from wounds suffered in the trenches or from disease is unclear, but he was buried in the camp and later exhumed when it was decided to bury British war dead interred in 146 separate cemeteries around Germany, to one central location. Frederick McCloud is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery; he was 32 years old.
His brother in law Pte, John Samuel Clayton, 8th East Yorkshire Regiment, was killed on the Somme, on 14/07/1916, aged 40. He lived at 2 John’s Terrace,. Arundel Street, Hull.