Newbert, Frederick Ellis

BORN MEXBOROUGH, 1894. SON OF GEORGE FREDERICK NEWBERT (1863-1918) AND EMMA GELDER (1894-1973). HE HAD TWO SISTERS AND LIVED AT 4 , CHOLMLEY STREET, HULL (1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS). A FORMER LAW CLERK. HE SERVED AS A SERGEAANT IN THE HULL PALS. MARRIED KATE DODGSON (1894-1973) AT HULL IN JANUARY 1918. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 12/04/1918, AGED 24. HE LEFT £194 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW IN HIS WILL WHO LIVED AT 7 BARTON TERRACE, STANLEY STREEET, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS)
Hull Pals Memorial Post. SERGEANT FREDERICK ELLIS NEWBERT 10/78. Born 1894, the second of three children, and only son, of George and Emma Newbert. Frederick was a Law Clerk prior to the outbreak of war and lived at 7 Barton Terrace, Stanley Street in Hull with his wife Kate. Caught up in the rush of patriotic fervour he was only the 78th man in the long queue to enlist for the fledgling battalion on 1st September 1914. His social status will have gone a long way to earning him his rank, though he would have had to earn it too, and boy did he earn it. A veteran of Egypt, the Somme, Oppy Wood and countless night patrols in No-Man’s Land, Frederick’s luck finally ran out on 12th April 1918 in the maze of trenches and dykes around the ruins of the French village of Bethune, as the Pals attempted to hold the line in the face of the German Spring Offensive. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. He was 24 years old. In the May of 1919 Frederick’s Will was read in York. He left £119 12s to Kate. A tidy sum in those days, though small recompense for the loss of a husband.