Postcard from Fred Lynn to his Mother

Fred wrote
"Dear Mother we got at Lincon [sic] on Sat at 2 oclock and I am getting on all right hope you are the same. From your loving son Fred.

Fred Lynn's story
Fred's story is told here through a number of photographs and post cards that he sent to his mother. She kept them in an album, together with those from his brothers and sisters.

Frederick Lynn was the sixth of 7 surviving children of Sarah Ann and Christmas Lynn. Fred was born in 1896 and brought up in Gedney Hill in south Lincolnshire.

Fred and his brothers Robert and John went to Lincoln to enlist in April 1916.
Robert was not accepted. I don't know if this was because he was not fit or because he was now the head of the household (his father had died in 1915) or because he was a farmer.
Fred enlisted in the Notts and Derby Regiment of the Sherwood Foresters. He became a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion and was wounded in 1918.
He was in hospital in Southampton in May 1918 but was discharged and returned to his Battalion. Tragically he was killed on 29th September 1918 and is commemorated on the Memorial at the Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium and on the war memorials in his home village of Gedney Hill.

Fred's brother John Lynn also enlisted but I have no photographs of him and very few postcards to his mother. John survived the war but died in 1918, perhaps in the flu pandemic.

弗雷德写道："亲爱的母亲：我们于周六两点抵达林肯（原文拼写为Lincon，标注[sic]），我一切安好，愿您也一切顺遂。爱您的儿子 弗雷德。

弗雷德·林恩的生平故事
本数据集通过弗雷德寄给母亲的多张照片与明信片讲述其生平。母亲将这些藏品与他兄弟姐妹寄来的物品一同收纳于相册中。

弗雷德里克·林恩是萨拉·安与克里斯马斯·林恩的7名存活子女中的第六位。弗雷德于1896年出生，在南林肯郡的吉德尼希尔长大。

1916年4月，弗雷德与兄弟罗伯特、约翰一同前往林肯应征入伍。
罗伯特未被军方录用。目前暂未明确其未被录用的具体原因：可能是身体条件不符合入伍要求，或是因父亲于1915年去世后他成为家庭户主，亦或是他本身为一名农场主。
弗雷德加入了舍伍德森林团（Sherwood Foresters）旗下的诺丁汉和德比团，在第15营担任下士（Lance Corporal），并于1918年负伤。
1918年5月，他在南安普顿的医院接受治疗，随后出院返回原部队。不幸的是，他于1918年9月29日阵亡，其姓名被镌刻在比利时泰恩科特公墓（Tyne Cot Cemetery）的纪念墙与家乡吉德尼希尔的战争纪念碑上。

弗雷德的兄弟约翰·林恩同样应征入伍，但目前未留存其相关照片，寄给母亲的明信片也极少。约翰在一战中幸存，但于1918年去世，死因大概率为流感大流行。