Name
Frank Leon William Steward
June 1897.
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
62594
Suffolk Regiment
1st Garrison Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
D. 6. 327.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey,
Oxhey, Herts, War Memorial,
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Frank Leon William Steward, born in Nunhead, London/Surrey in June 1897, was the son of Leon Steward, (B 1851-1912) and Ellen Steward, (B 1873-1947), (nee Allan), one of three children, Winnie (Born 1895) & Victor (B 1903). His father was a boot repairer.
1901 Census records Frank aged 4, living with his parents and his sister Winifred 6, at 15, Grimwade Crescent, Camberwell, London/Surrey.
In 1911, his father, who was 59, was an inmate of Watford Union Workhouse and Infirmary in Vicarage Road, Watford. His circumstances are unknown. Frank was then fourteen and working as an errand boy, he was living with his mother and his two siblings Winnie and Victor, at 36, Grover Road, Oxhey, Watford, Herts. His father died the following year.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted and was posted to the1st Garrison Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, which was based at Tilbury, Essex, with the service number 62594, nothing is currently known about his military service.
In 1917 he married Mabel Facer in Watford. He died of Pneumonia in The Military Hospital in Sheppey, Kent, a year later on 22 November 1918, aged 21.
He was buried in Watford Cemetery. He is commemorated on the memorial at St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £2-16s-9d, Pay Owing which went to his widow Mable.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
