BORN HULL 1888. YOUNGEST SON OF SAMUEL & BETSY SMITH, OF 218 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL, BLENHEIM STREET, HULL AND 123 SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. A FORMER LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT ARRAS, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 29.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, HULL.
HIS PARENTS WROTE A MEMORIUM TO HIM IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/05/1918, ON THE ANIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH. – “THE GOLDEN GATES WERE OPEN, A GENTLE VOICE SAID “COME”, AND WITH FAREWELLS UNSPOKEN, HE CALMLY ENTERED HOME.”
First name:
FRANK
Regiment:
Military Number:
30828
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/05/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
29
