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Alfred was born in Beverley in 1890. The second son in a family of ten children, nine of whom were boys. His parents George and Ada were from Beverley. George worked in the local shipyard as a blacksmiths labourer, Fred`s brothers Walter and Thomas also worked in the shipyard as plater's helpers. The family lived in Keldgate and by 1911 were living at 15 Spark Mill Terrace, Flemingate in a 4 roomed house. His mother Ada died in 1918 and father George in 1945.
Fred married Martha Tomlinson in 1910 and in 1911 he was employed as a waggoner on a farm, Staddlethorpe Grange near Gilberdyke.
Alfreds pension record shows that he joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1914 but was discharged after one month as being unfit. The record shows that by 1914 he had three children Doris 3, George 2 and Fred 1. They were then living at Victoria Cottage, Church Street, South Cave. Green`s Almanac records Fred as being in the York and Lancs Regiment and to have been wounded in action. He survived the war as did his brother George. His brother Walter was wounded in action near Ypres in 1915 and died later in hospital and was buried in Wimereux Cemetery Boulogne
He died in 1970 in Hull.
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