BORN BRANDESBURTON 1892, EAST YORKSHIRE. SON OF WILLIAM HEBBLEWHITE, OF 255 , HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL WHERE THEY LIVED WITH HIS AUNTIE KATE PLATT (1911 CENSUS). WORKED AS A MACHINE HAND. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS 11/1/1915. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN EGYPT IN 1915. WOUNDED IN FRANCE ON 23/8/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 24.
HIS OLDER BROTHER, HARRY HEBBLEWHITE, HAD EMIGRATED TO CANADA TO WORK AS A FARMER AND WAS KILLED WITH THE 78TH CANADIAN INFANTRY AT VIMY IN 1917, AGED 30. THEY ARE BOTH COMMEMORATED ON THE BRANDESBURTON WW1 MEMORIAL WHICH LISTS SEVEN NAMES.
First name:
FRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/1204
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France
Age:
24
