Fred Tennant

Fred Tennant

14329880 Private Fred Tennant,
2nd Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment

Barwick Maypole, with climber nearing the top (ELHAS)

Fred Tennant's father Frank is buried in All Saints' Churchyard, Barwick in Elmet. Frank Tennant was the last Maypole climber before the Second World War and the first to climb it after the war.

Fred Tennant was killed on 13th April 1945, aged 20, and is buried in Uden War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

Uden War Cemetery (CWGC)