BORN HULL 1880. ONLY SON OF REBECCA RABY, OF 8 CLARA’S TERRACE, WEST PARADE AND 10 CARNAVON TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL, (ARMY ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 31/07/1916, AGED 35.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED RABY 11/1203. Born in October 1880, Fred was the only son of Edwin and Rebecca Raby. His father was committed to the Lunatic Asylum in Brough when Fred was just a child and Rebecca raised both he and his two sisters alone with the help of family. The girls married and moved on, but Fred was still living with his Mum at 10 Claras Terrace, West Parade, Hull when war broke out. A Fish Hawker by trade, he enlisted at City Hall on 12th December 1914 and joined the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. Having trained at Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon before shipping for Alexandria, Egypt in December 1915, Fred helped garrison the Suez Canal feared to be under threat from the Turkish Army until they left Port Said late the following February for France and the trenches of the Western Front. Fred was wounded in the left arm, face and abdomen during the Somme campaign and evacuated from the front line to 33rd Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds on 31st July 1916. Fred Raby is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery; he was 35 years old. His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, on 16/08/1916. *
