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FRED RISPIN
Anlaby HU5 4AB
BORN NEWBOLD, YORKS 1888. A NATIVE OF ANLABY COMMON, HULL. SON OF HENRY (1858-1940) AND MARY RISPIN (1859-1924), OF 16, HULL ROAD, ANLABY, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A RAILWAY PLATELAYER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
HE WAS WORKING AS A COAL MINER AND BOARDING AT 90, SYNDALE, CUDWORTH, YORKSHIRE (1911 CENSUS). IT WAS HERE THAT HE MET HIS FUTURE WIFE.
HE MARRIED, MARTHA HARAM (1888-1969), AT ANLABY, HULL ON 1 JUN 1914, AGED 27.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST COLDSTREAM GUARDS, IN THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/10/1914, AGED 26. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HE WAS FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/10/1914., WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARTHA. SHE REMAINED A DOMESTIC SERVANT AND NEVER RE-MARRIED.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ANLABY WW1 MEMORIAL, ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, WILSON STREET, ANLABY.
Fred Rispin is recorded in UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, Volume 2, page 262.
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