Fred had grown up in Filey at 14, West Parade as the son of Richard Moody, Carrier and taken his butchers apprenticeship at the local butchers shop, Plow’s in the town centre.  After this he had moved to Scalby and gained full time employment at Welfords, a large butchers shop in the same place. 

          In 1915 he joined up into the 19^th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and was wounded with a bullet through his right hand on the first day of the Battle of the Somme (1^st July 1916).  In late 1916 he returned to France but on the 27^th April 1917 was again invalided back to Filey, this time with a bullet through the third finger of his left hand and before coming home had to spend a period in a hospital in Lincoln.  This was to be his last time at home, as after returning to the trenches in the summer of 1917 he was killed the following October at the Second Battle of Passchendaele and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.  His officer, a Lt. G. W. Johnson wrote to Fred’s father that Fred ‘was always cheery, and will be missed greatly by his comrades’.