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Frederick Bryan enlisted in the East Yorkshire Army Reserve on 9 Feb 1916, and was mobilised on 31 May 1916, transferring to the Machine Gun Corps on 25 Jul 1916. On 13 Sep 1916, the day that his son John was born, he embarked for France to join the British Expeditionary Force. In June 1917 he returned to England for six months and was then posted back to the BEF in France in Dec 1917 where he served until he was killed in action on 11 Apr 1918. Frederick is “Remembered with Honour” on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Frederick was born in 1886 in South Dalton, the youngest son of William Bryan gamekeeper, and his wife Lavinia, he followed in his father’s footsteps, being employed as a gamekeeper at Dalton Holme in the 1911 Census. In 1913 he married Fanny Poole, who was born in Healaugh, Tadcaster: In 1911 Fanny was a nurse employed at the Hull City Lunatic Asylum, Willerby. Frederick and Fanny had three children, Catherine Mary born 1914 in Driffield, Dorothy Edith born 1915 in Driffield, and John Poole Bryan born 1916 in Lockington. After Frederick died, Fanny returned to live with relatives in Healaugh, Tadcaster, but later moved to Bridlington where she died in 1929, leaving Catherine, Dorothy and John orphaned, aged 15, 14 and 13.
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