Name
Frank Ellis Whittred
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/07/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
242237
Yorkshire Regiment
2/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SISSONNE BRITISH CEMETERY
M. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at 5, Whitehill, Hitchin. He was the son of Emma Whittred and the husband of Bertha Elizabeth Whittred of 5, White Hill, Hitchin, Herts.
He joined up in 1916.
Wartime Service
Frank went to France in January 1917. He was posted to the l/5th Battalion of the Regiment and taken prisoner by the Germans during their Great Offensive in 1918. He died of exposure and privation as a prisoner of war.
He is buried in Row M, Grave 9 in the Sissonne British Military Cemetery in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
