Ward, Frank

BORN HULL 1882. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. DIED OF PNEUMONIA. BROTHER FRED 50 WASSAND STREET ALSO SERVED IN FRANCE. ON ST MATHEWS CHURCH ROH.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANK WARD 11/428. Born in 1892, Frank was the second of four children to Mary Ward of 50 Wassand Street, Hull. His father had died when he was a child and his mother had taken the family to live with her brother in Oswaldkirk for a time before returning to the city. A Fish Carter by trade, Frank enlisted on 8th September 1914 at Hull City Hall and joined ‘The Tradesmen’, the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment; the Hull Pals. Frank married Mary Patterson at St. Barnabas Church on 8th December that year and the couple’s only child, Maud, was born the following March. It was while home on leave to see his new daughter that Frank was taken ill and rushed to Naval Hospital where he died of pneumonia on 15th June 1915. He is buried in Hedon Road Cemetery and his name commemorated in the St. Barnabas Book of Remembrance now kept in St. Matthew’s Church on Anlaby Road, Hull. He was 32 years old. His brother Fred also fought in France.