WWI Pair. Fry. ASC. Westbury, Wilts. Served Archangel, Russia.

Correctly named S4/184633 A/Cpl HG Fry ASC

Herbert George Fry was born to Joseph and Rosanna in Westbury in 1879.

He married Elizabeth Maud Stokes in 1909.

We find Herbert in 1911 living at Station Road in Westbury and working as a foreman at a machine seewing department.

He enlisted into the Army Service Corps in May 1916 and the pair is his full entitlement.

When he enlisted, he notes his occupation as a school attendence officer.

We see he served in the Russian Theatre, Archangel from October 1918. Notes show he returned to the UK aboard SS Kalyan in 1919.

It is most likely that Herbert travelled to Russia aboard the Kalyan as the dates match with the ships log.

SS Kalyan:

Kalyan was used as a troop ship between England, Egypt and Salonika. She was then refitted as a hospital ship and dispatched to North Russia in October 1918. After a 12-day voyage she arrived in Archangel. There she acted as a temporary base hospital for British, Canadian, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian sick and wounded. The ship remained there throughout the winter, with ice having to be broken each day to prevent damage through “pinching”.

She returned to Leith in June 1919.

His release address is noted as Myrtleville, 96 West End, Westbury, Wiltshire.

Herbert is seen in 1939 to have returned to being a foreman for a glove factory and now living at 3 Helena Road, Yeovilton.

Herbert died in 1973.