Name
Frank Bunker
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/13462
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
XII. C. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Cross Church Memorial, Sarratt, Chipperfield Village Memorial, St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield, We are not aware of any Belsize memorial
Pre War
Frank Bunker was born in 1896 in Sarratt (probably postal town for Belsize, Hertfordshire), son of James Bunker, a farm worker and Annie (nee Reading) Bunker. One of eight children.
1901 Census records Frank aged 4, living with his parents, and seven siblings in, Belsize, Herts.
1911 Census has Frank aged 14, living with his parents, brother Albert (23) and sister Minnie (12) in, Belsize, Herts.
Frank was a member of the Chipperfield Baptist Church.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted at Watford, Herts in May 1915, aged 19, while resident of Sarratt (probably postal town for Belsize), posted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps with the service number R/13462.
He entered France on 1 Oct 1915, serving on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 24 August 1916, at the Battle of Delville Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme. (1 July 1916 to 18 November 1916).
The 9th Battalion, K.R.R.C. was part of the 42nd Brigade, 14th Division.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. J. Bunker, Belsize, Sarratt, Nr. Rickmansworth, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ". His mother Annie was awarded a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6 November 1918. His effects of £5-10s-6d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £4-10s-00d, went to his father James.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
