Name
Frank (poss Francis) William Martin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
305237
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Meritorious Service Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Joseph and Charlotte (nee BALL) MARTIN; husband of Daisy (nee GOMME) MARTIN.
His parents married 11 April 1882 at St Mary’s, Arnold, Notts. Charlotte died 1939 aged 79; Joseph died 1949 aged 90; both in the Basford, Notts, district.
Frank was born 1896 in Arnold, and married 1916 in the Watford district. Daisy remarried 1920 in the Watford district to Arthur DEAN.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Arnold, with his parents and nine siblings. On the 1911 Census, a coal ganger aged 15, he lived in Braybrook, Notts, with his parents and ten siblings.
Officially recorded as born in Arnold, Notts. and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Kimberley, Notts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Kimberley, Notts, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
