Name
Frank Lovering
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41757
South Staffordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 90-92 and 162-162A
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Goff's Oak Memorial, Goff's Oak Street Name, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Frank Lovering was born in Enfield, Middlesex, in the later part of 1898, son of Frederick Lovering a Police Officer and Emily Lovering (nee Taunton ). The youngest of three children although one died in infancy.
1901 Census records Frank aged 2, living with his parents, and brother Fred (4) at 8 Hoe Lane, Enfield, Middx.
1911 Census Frank aged 12, is at school, living with his parents and brother Fred (14), (who is working at a Garden Rose Nursery), at the Police Station, Goff’s Oake, Herts, where his father is the Local Policeman.
His father retired from the Metropolitan Police Force on 12th October 1919, with a Police Pension.
The family later lived in Burton Lane, Goff’s Oak, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the South Staffordshire Regiment and issued with the service number 41757.
On completion of his training, he served on the Western Front where he was Killed in Action on 26th October 1917, aged 19, the first day of the Second Battle of Passchendaele (Second Battle of Passchendaele 26th Oct – 10th Nov 1917). He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium, to the missing.
Additional Information
His mother Emily received a dependents pension of 6/- a week for life from 21st May 1918, he address was recorded as, The Police Station, Goff’s Oak, Cheshunt, Herts.
His effects of £3-13-00, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, also went to his mother Emily.
In June 1997 Broxbourne Borough Council received a suggestion from the Chairman of Goffs Oak Community Association to name roads to commemorate the men who lost their lives in the two world wars who are displayed on the Goffs Oak War Memorial. It was decided that these names should be used for the large development in Hammond Street Road, this soldier has one of the surnames chosen: "Lovering Road" – the reason for the names selected (as opposed to others) is not known.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
