Scottow, Fred Arthur | Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF CHARLES MILES SCOTTOW (1869-1909) & REBECCA HUDSON (1872-1962). HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.

HIS WIFE ENDYMION (BRIDGES), LIVED AT 7 HARRIETS SQUARE, SCOTT STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED BY ABBA & SONS, LIME STREET, HULL.

HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 02/05/1917, AGED 22. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/07/1917. *

HE LEFT A WIDOW AND ONE CHILD AT 7 HARRIET SQUARE, SCOTT STREET, HULL.

HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S, NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917) & ALSO LISTED ON HULL’S, SCOTT STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR. THREE BROTHERS ALSO SERVED DURING THE WAR, (HDM 10/11/1916). HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER, VALENTINE SYDNEY SCOTTOW DIED ON 22/02/1919, AGED 15.

Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL FREDERICK SCOTTOW 11/473. Born 2nd April 1895, Frederick was the third of nine children to Charles and Rebecca Scottow of 3 Owens Square, New George Street, Hull. A French Polisher by trade, he enlisted at City Hall on 8th September 1914 and hurriedly married Endymion Bridges a month later, just prior to his leaving town for training. Frederick was disciplined for overstaying a pass while at Ripon in July 1915, but this didn’t stop his promotion once the Pals arrived in France from Egypt. He survived the Somme but was killed in action on 2nd May 1917 as the 11th Battalion took their positions for a new attack, a diversion as part of the wider Battle of Arras, on a place called Oppy Wood.
We’re back here again, and the next 56 nights will be spent remembering men who died alongside their comrades from the 10th Battalion in the attack the Hull Pals are most closely associated with. Frederick Scottow never went over the top that morning, his body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 22 years old. Endymion Scottow had a child, Annie Sophia Bridges, from a previous relationship…..the army did not want to help. A soldier is only of use to an army when he is alive, dead he is a name with a line through it on a piece of paper marked “K in A” in red ink.

The attack on Oppy Wood, part of the Battle of Arras, was a significant battle for the East Yorkshire Regiment and particularly for the city of Hull. All four Hull Pals battalions were involved on 3 May and all suffered heavy casualties, with 40% of those present killed or injured. 2nd Lieutenant Jack Harrison, a local teacher and rugby player with Hull FC, won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in rushing a machine gun position to protect his platoon. His body was never found.

The village of Oppy in France had been in German hands since October 1914 and was part of a formidable defensive system including trenches, dug-outs and thick barbed wire defences. During the Battle of Arras, which began in April 1917, the British tried to take Oppy. The first attack was a failure. A second attack was partially successful. The third attack on 3 May, known officially as the Third Battle of the Scarpe, was again unsuccessful with significant loss of life. The troops were ordered to attack at 3.45am, rather than at dawn, and the defending Germans could easily see the line of British soldiers clearly lit by the full moon. The British continued to attack Oppy and were finally successful the following year. The City of Hull Memorial at Oppy was unveiled in 1927 and commemorates the men of the Hull Pals who were killed on 3 and 4 May 1917.

First name:

FREDERICK ARTHUR

Regiment:

11th East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Tradesmen)

Military Number:

11/473

Rank:

Lance Corporal

Date Died

02/05/1917

Place died:

Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Age:

3 Owens Square, New George Street, Hull, UK

Place Buried

62000 Arras, France