Born Hull 1897. Hull Pal. Post Office worker.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. CPL FRED HARRISON MM 11/463. Born in 1897, Fred was the youngest of two children and only son of Charles and Ellen Harrison of 65 Northumberland Avenue, Hull (War Pension address). A Telegraph Messenger before the war, he queued outside Hull City Hall on Tuesday 8th September 1914 joining the fledgling 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. He was underage. His secret does not appear to have been revealed for he travelled to Egypt with the Pals in December 1915 and served on the Somme throughout 1916. He was promoted to Corporal after Oppy Wood and showed enough courage under fire to be awarded the Military Medal. Fred was fatally wounded in the Vieux-Berquin sector and withdrawn to the hospital centre at St. Omer where he died on 21st August 1918 from complications to a spinal injury, the details of which we can only imagine in our worst night mares. He is buried in Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St Omer, France; he was 21 years old.
