Born in Bewholme, East Yorkshire in December 1897, Robert was the youngest of five children to George Robert Franks (1863-1917) and Emma Brumpton (1870-1942). At the time of the 1911 Census he was already living away from home and working as a Horseman on a farm near Lowthorpe, Driffield. When war came, Robert was among the first to enli […]
