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Frederick Revell was born in Beverley in Jun 1888 the son of George Revell and Mary Ann (nee Shepherdson), who married in 1871, and had ten children. George was a farm labourer in Woodmansey and then became a tanner's labourer in Beverley. The family had lived in Sloe Lane, then Highgate and by 1911 were living at 39 Eastgate, Beverley. Frederick worked as a mill hand and on 4 Jun 1910 married Ethel May Fortnam, whose father Henry was at one time the landlord of the Sloop Inn, Beckside. They moved to Hull but returned to Beverley to live at 42 Minstermoorgate.
According to the Beverley Guardian of 31 Jul 1915 Frederick arrived on the Western Front in Jan 1915, indicating he had enlisted at the outbreak of war in 1914. He joined the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, as a Private and served in Belgium in the Ypres Salient. It was there in mid-June 1915 he was badly wounded in the abdomen and repatriated to the UK to the Red Cross hospital at Chillington, Sussex. The newspaper noted that "the bullet had still not been extracted".
Frederick was transferred to the Labour Corps as a Private but it is not known whether he served overseas again. He left the army in 1919 and was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
Frederick's brothers also served, Aaron as a Driver in the Army Service Corps, James as a Driver in the Royal Engineers and Christopher as a Private in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. All survived the war. Frederick died in Jun 1940 in Hull.
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