BORN HULL 1898. SON OF VALENTINE EDGECUMBE & LILLIAN MAUD SERGEANT, OF 8, MARVEL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 8, MARVEL TERRACE, NAYLOR’S ROW, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ELDEST OF FOUR CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED 18 MONTHS IN FRANCE & ITALY. EX, PRIVATE, 27012 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 35851,8TH KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/10/1918, AGED 20.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 13TH DECEMBER 1918.
HE IS BURIED IN ITALY AT TEZZE BRITISH CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “UPRIGHT AND TRUE ONE OF THE BEST GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST EVER IN THOUGHTS.”
First name:
FRANK
Military Number:
35851
Rank:
Private
Date Died
28/10/1918
Place died:
Tezze British Cemetery, Italy
Age:
20
8, MARVEL TERRACE, NAYLOR'S ROW, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
