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Fred Middleton was born in Beverley the 21 Jun 1892 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 25 Jun, to William and Emma Middleton. They married in 1889 in Beverley and had four children. Fred became a carter but may have started at work at the Grovehill shipyard before the war. In 1912 he joined the Territorial Army and was in the 2nd/1st East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry until 30 Apr 1915 when he joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as a regular soldier. Whilst training at Harrogate, he came back to Beverley on 5 May 1915 to be married at Beverley Minster to Hilda Botham, born 1894. Their first son, Kenneth was born in 1916, their home was at 13 Wilbert Grove.
Fred served in the 1st/4th Battalion of KOYLI, whilst serving with them in Flanders on 21 Jul 1917 he was badly gassed and returned to hospital in the UK at Guilsborough, Northants. His injuries were severe and on 11 Dec 1917, after recovery he was released from KOYLI to work at the Grovehill shipyard, indicating that he was a skilled worker, he resumed there on 17 Jan 1918. He was officially disembodied from KOYLI on 11 Jan 1919. He was awarded a pension as well as the War and Victory Medals.
The couple’s second child, Leonard, was born 1920, 13 Wilbert Grove continued to be the family home but the 1939 Register notes that they had moved to 33 Ladygate where Fred was the licensed victualler at the Dog and Duck Inn. He died aged 86 in 1978.
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