BORN HULL 1889. SON OF HARRY & SARAH ANN FRANKISH (1864-1942), OF 57 SHERBURN STREET, HULL, 41 ARTHUR STREET, WITHERNSEA AND SUTTON-ON-HULL. SECOND OF FOUR SONS. THEIR FATHER WAS A GROCERY MANAGER.- 57 SHERBURN ST, DRYPOOL. (HDM ADDRESS). A GROCER MANAGER LIKE HIS FATHER. HE WAS CALLED UP FOR SERVICE, ON 09/03/1916. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 35-37 INCH CHEST, 134 LBSWEIGHT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 02/07/1916, SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, THE SECOND HULLK PALS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/09/1916, AGED 27.
HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER, DRIVER, CLEMENT ROLAND FRANKISH, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, DIED AT SALONIKA, ON 11/10/1917, AGED 24. THEY ARE BOTH REMEMBERED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE IN SUTTON-ON-HULL CHURCHYARD. THEY ARE COMMEMORATED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CYRIL BERTRAND FRANKISH 22513. Born in 1889, Cyril was the second of four children to Harry and Sarah Ann Frankish. The family ran a Grocer’s in Arthur Street, Withernsea before moving back to 14 Albany Street, Hull the city of Cyril’s birth. He enlisted when he had to. December 1915. The shadow of the soon-to-be-passed Conscription Bill hung over young men of Military Age and not yet in uniform. Cyril must have endured the taunts of white feathers together with the stares and muttered insults of 1915, and finally attested before he was forced to go and saved himself the ignominy of entering the army a conscript. Training from February 1916, Cyril arrived in France on 2nd July, the day after the Somme battle wiped out so many of his comrades. He must have wondered what on earth he had let himself in for. He wasn’t wondering long. Cyril Frankish was killed in action on 12th September 1916 and his body was never recovered; his name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial; he was 27 years old.
