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FRED BOSMAN WORRELL

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Rank
Able Seaman
Regiment
ROYAL NAVY VOLUNTARY RESERVE RNVR ANSON BATTALION ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION
Military Number
Z/8070
Address
Clarke's Lane, Patrington, East Yorkshire, HU12 0RQ
Background

Patrington WW1 Memorial Tablet, St Patrick's Church, Patrington. 111 men served and 24 died in WW1

Born Out Newton, Yorkshire, on 20/02/1890. Son of Edward (1862-1944) and Fanny Bosman (1870-1930), of Clarke's Lane, Patrington, Hull. When Fred Bosman Worrall was born on 20 February 1890, his father, Edward, was 27 and his mother, Fanny, was 20. He had three brothers and three sisters.

Employed as a Railway Porter.

He enlisted on 25/10/1915 ; Drafted for the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), on 06/09/1916. Joined the Anson Battalion, on 26/11/16-14/3/17

Had a Carbuncle on his Back and was invalided to the UK , on 22/03/1917 ;

Drafted for the British Expeditionary Force again, on 15/06/1917,  Re-joined the Anson Bn., on 14/07/1917 to the 24/11/1917.

Contracted Tetanus, and invalided to the UK, on  06/01/1918 ;

Drafted back to the BEF, on 01/04/1918, Re-joined the Anson Bn., on  07/04/1918 to when he was killed in action, on 08/10/1918, aged 28.

He is commemorated on the Patrington ww1 Memorial and at the  St Patrick Church there.

Date Died
08/10/1918
Died
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, FRANCE
Age
28
Memorial
1 Route nationale
Haucourt 62156

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