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Fred Welburn joined the army on 15 May 1914, he joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, as a Private. He arrived in France on 18 Aug 1915. The 5th Battalion were involved in many of the bloodiest battles of the war- at the Somme and Passchendaele in particular. He was transferred to the Labour Corps as a Private, indicating he may have been wounded. He was discharged from the Labour Corps on 21 Mar 1919 suffering from an unspecified "sickness". He received the Silver Badge, the 1914-15 Star and the war and Victory Medals.
Fred was born in Beverley the 4 Jan 1896 and baptised in Beverley Minster 25 Dec 1897, the son of Joseph, a worker at the Corporation Gas Works on Beckside and Martha, an office cleaner and charwoman. Fred worked as a market garden helper. The family lived in Highgate and Eastgate, by 1911 they were living at 1 Musgraves Yard, Toll Gavel, Beverley.
Fred returned to Beverley and in 1920 married Nellie King, they left the area and in 1939 were living and working in Runcorn, Cheshire, Fred was a chemical works foreman, they later lived in Fleetwood, Lancashire, where he died in Oct 1976.
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