BORN HULL 1887. SON OF LUCY ANN NESS OF 1 BRUNSWICK TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL. HE LIVED AT 3 CUMMINGS BUILDINGS, PORTER STREET, AND 1 BRUNSWICK TERRACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL (HDM 23/12/1916). HE VOLUNTEERED AND JOINED THE HULL PALS. HIS BROTHER JACK, LIVED WITHAM, & HIS SISTER LILLIAN, AT BEAN STREET, HULL. BEFORE ENLISTING HE WORKED FOR THOMAS WILSONS AND SONS, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (3RD HULL PALS). HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRONT FOR 12 MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED AT EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLLINCAMPS, FRANCE. THE HULL DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 23RD MAY 1916. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED NESS 12/127. Born in April 1887, Fred was the youngest of three children to Lucy Ness of 27 Paradise Place, Hull. A Wooden Box Maker at the time of the 1911 Census, Fred had been rejected for military service on grounds of bad teeth in 1910. The army were not so choosy on 14th September 1914 when he queued outside City Hall to enlist for the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. After serving in Egypt over the Winter of 1915/16 Fred arrived in France on March 8th and went into the line on what was soon to become the Somme battlefield. Wounded by shrapnel in the right leg on 28th July he was soon back up and at em and fought on until he raised a rifle for the final time on 13th November 1916. Fred Ness is buried in Euston Road Cemetery; he was 29 years old.
