BORN BARTON 1891. SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH, OF BARTON ON HUMBER. HUSBAND OF FRANCES MARY (HORSEFALL), OF 68 MERSY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/06/1918, AGED 27. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 26/07/1918. HE IS BURIED AT AVAL WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, VIEUX-BERQUIN, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DEARLY LOVED”
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANK DANSON 22839. Born in July 1891, Frank was the youngest of seven children to William and Elizabeth Danson of 18 Market Place, Barton-upon-Humber. A Printer by trade, he married Frances Mary Horsefall on 15th December 1912 and the couple lived at 7 Hawthorne Villa, Balfour Street, Hull. Frank enlisted at Hull City Hall on 11th December 1915, jumping before he was pushed. He arrived in France with the 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in July 1916 and very possibly played at least some part in the Somme campaign that summer. He was hospitalised with Trenchfoot in February 1917 and didn’t return to the front until July when he joined the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, narrowly missing Oppy Wood. Frank Dobson was killed in action on 28th June 1918 during the attack on German positions around La Becque farm. He is buried in Aval Wood Military Cemetery; he was 27 years old. In a poignant reminder of the difficulty the army had in keeping up with the scale of the losses, Frances Danson wrote to the battalion in mid-July begging for information about her husband whom she had not heard from since the start of the month. She had received his last letter a few days after he had died.
