Name
Frank Christopher Denman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/08/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
84th Battery, 11th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BLEUET FARM CEMETERY
Plot I, Row C, Grave 27.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Watford Conservative Club Memorial, Not on the Bushey memorials(*1), Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book
Pre War
Son of Emily Charlotte BALLINGER (formerly DENMAN, nee CRUICKSHANKS), and the late Frank Turner DENMAN; husband of Dorothy Margaret (nee SPIVEY) DENMAN.
His parents married 26 June 1893 at St Margaret’s, Westminster, London. Frank died 30 October 1903 in Willesden, Middx, aged 39, and was buried 5 November at St James’, Bushey, Herts. Emily remarried 1906 in the Wandsworth, London, district to Louis Charles BALLINGER. She died 28 August 1936 in Bushey aged 68, and was buried 31 August at St James’, Bushey; Louis died 23 March 1939 in Bushey aged 67, and was buried 29 March, also at St James.
Frank was born 28 May 1894 in Bushey, and baptised 2 September 1894 at St James’, Bushey. He married 21 November 1916 at St Thomas’, Portman Square, London. Dorothy never remarried and died 18 January 1930 in Watford, and was buried 22 January in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
There is a Marriage announcement for Frank in the Observer dated 25 November 1916.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in New Bushey, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, an insurance clerk aged 17, he lived in Watford, with his mother, step-father and two siblings.
He had previously been a Corporal in the Emmanual School, Wandsworth, London, O.T.C. He attested in the Territorial Force 4 years service in the U.K. 22 April 1912 at Armoury House, Finsbury Square, London: a clerk to an insurance broker aged 17, 5’7″ tall; Driver 313 ‘A’ Battery Honourable Artillery Company.
Additional Information
*1 Records found have recorded his birthplace as Bushey. This may be the case, however Bushey was the main postal location given for nearby villages and hamlets, so it may be that this information is misleading. If more accurate information found this will be updated.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
