Name
Frank Marshall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/70077
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 14 to 17 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge, War Memorial, St John’s Church, High Cross, Not on the Ware memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Wadesmill
Pre War
Born on the 27th April 1899 in Wadesmill, Herts. Son of John Marshall as Shepherd and Emma Marshall. He was Baptised on the 21st May 1899, in High Cross, Herts. and was one of six children.
Two brothers also served in the army, according to the Herts & Essex Observer. The 1901 records Frank, aged 1, as living with his parents, 2 brothers and sister, in Wades Mill, Herts. In 1911 he was at school and living with his parents, 2 brothers and 2 sisters at 17 Wades Mill, Ware, Herts. He was a resident of Ware, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted in Hertford about March 1917 and went to the front in April 1918.
He was "a well-disposed lad" according to the paper. He appears to have enlisted straight into the Queen's,
Additional Information
CWGC records list him as “Son of John and Emma Marshall of 17 Wades Mill, Ware, Herts”. SDITGW gives date of death as 7 Jun 1917
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Herts & Essex Observer, Pat Bird, Malcolm Lennox
