BORN HULL 26/02/1897. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM PORTZ (1866-1941) & ISABELLA PORTZ (1866-1923), OF 10, HARRIETS TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL AND LATER 33, WASSAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
BEFORE THE WAR FRED WAS A FISHERMAN FOR CARGILLS STEAM TRAWLER COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. SERVED AS DECK HAND ON THE TRAWLER, “ETNA”. SERVED IN THE WAR FOR OVER THREE YEARS, INCLUDING SERVICE ON HMS ‘KINGFISHER’. HE DIED OF FEVER IN THE NAVAL HOSPITAL AT DOVER. HIS TWO BROTHERS ALSO SERVED ONE IN THE EYR AND THE OTHER ON MINESWEEPERS.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 22ND JULY 1918. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S WALKER STREET WW1 MEMORIAL.
First name:
FREDERICK
Regiment:
Military Number:
9202
Rank:
Deck Hand
Date Died
12/07/1918
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
21
