Another of the young men to be conscripted as soon as they reached a certain age, Fred was placed in the 2^nd/7^th (Prince of Wales Own) West Yorkshire Regt. at the completion of his training.  Before joining up, he lived above his father’s grocer’s shop at 1, John Street with his father and mother George and Mary Ann.  He had worked in the shop after leaving school, along with Harold Crimlisk, whose father owned the fishmonger’s shop four doors away and who had fallen in 1917 during the Arras campaign.

          Again, Fred did not survive for very long in France, as within a couple of months of being there he died of wounds that were received during the 1918 German Spring Offensive.  He was laid to rest in Doullens Communal Cemetery, the same place as Lieutenant Eric Birch.