Fred Pattison

Unusually for the BY, it's been an active month in terms of medals surfacing. Latest 'show' was the pair and school football medal to 31067 Private Fred Pattison.  Fred was born in 1893 in Northampton and was part of a group of men from the Northampton area who enlisted into the BY in late 1915 and early 1916.  Because Fred only served with the BY abroad after March 1917, when territorial numbers changed, we only know his post-1917 number. Research shows, however, that he would have enlisted into the 2/1st BY in November 1915 when his number would have been about 2260.  Fred earned his football medal in 1907 when aged 13 or 14 for the 'Northampton and County School sixes'. Fred lived in Monks Hall Road in the Great War. He married Elizabeth Willerton in 1915 and his death was registered in Northampton in 1959, when aged 65. It's great to see that Fred's medals have survived, a reminder of a man who volunteered to serve King and Country. His pair is the 27th I have noted to the BY over the years.

If you have any more information about Fred or the Northampton 'sixes', do let me know !