Name
Frank Gray
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
PO/2422 (S)
Royal Marine Light Infantry
1st R.M. Bn. Royal Naval Division.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hertfordshire and was residing in the county at the time he enlisted.
Wartime Service
His Service Number was P0.2422.S and the Royal Marine Light Infantry was part of the 1st Royal Marine Battalion, 188th Brigade, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division in XVIl Corps of the Third Army.
The circumstances of his death have not been discovered. On the day of his death the 188th Brigade were in front of Niergnies during the Battle of Cambrai which took place on the 8th/9th October 1918. They commenced their attack at 4.30am, were thrown back, but by 10.00am went forward again and by late afternoon Niergnies, about one mile south east of Cambrai, was firmly in their hands.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 1 of the Vis-en-Artois Memorial to the Missing at Haucourt in France.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
