BORN HULL 04/08/1878. SON OF GEORGE HENRY REDFERN (1854-1944) & MARY ANN HEWSON (1855-1942), OF 13, RUTH’S TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, THEN BRIGHTON STREET, THEN 3, COBDEN COTTAGES, WESTMORELAND STREET AND LATER LIVED AT 2, HEATHINGTON TERRACE, AIR STREET, HULL (1914 ELECTORAL RECORDS). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN.
A CHECKER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. HE WAS 5 FOOT 5 INCHES TALL, 34 INCH CHEST, 124 LIBS, ‘GOOD’ PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE. MARRIED ON 03/06/1906. HE MET HIS WIFE HANNAH NAYLOR WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR TO HIM AT 28, BLUE BELL ENTRY, HIGH STREET HULL. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN AND LIVED AT 2, HETHRINGTON PLACE, AIR STREET, 3, POPLAR COTTAGES, AIRE STREET AND 1, DEVON GROVE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 26/05/1915, AGED 36. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EYR, IN EGYPT FROM 15/12/1915. ARRIVED FRANCE ON 8/03/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION AT MONCHY-LE- PREUX, ON 04/06/1917, AGED 39.
HE LEFT A PENNY, PURSE, 2 PAPERS, PENCIL AND DISC AMONG HIS ARMY EFFECTS RETURNED TO HIS WIFE.
ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN DIED IN INFANCY AND HIS WIDOW HANNAH WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY PENSION OF 26 SHILLINGS FOR HERSELF AND THREE CHILDREN WITH EFFECT FROM 17/12/1917.
HE IS BURIED AT MONCHY BRITISH CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THE GREATER SACRIFICE”
HIS NAME IS INSCRIBED ON THE STONE PILLAR MEMORIAL AT ST MAY’S CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
HIS BROTHER, ALFRED REDFEARN, DIED ACCIDENTALLY, ON THE STEAM SHIP ‘BRISBANE’ AT ST ANDREWS DOCK ON 31/12/1918, AGED 38.
