Name
Frank Llewellyn Scripps
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/09/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
34898
Royal Fusiliers *1
7th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALBUERA CEMETERY, BAILLEUL-SIRE-BERTHOULT
North B.10.
France
Headstone Inscription
FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING
UK & Other Memorials
Anstey Village Memorial, St George's Church Memorial, Anstey. Barkway Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway
Pre War
Frank Llewellyn Scripps was born in 1891 in Barkway, Hertfordshire. the son of Thomas and Emily Louisa Scripps (nee Coxall), and was baptised on 13 September 1891 in the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Barkway. He was one of ten children, but four had died by 1911.
On the 1911 Census the family were living at Barley Road, Barkway where his father was working as a cowman. By 1911 they had moved to Church Lane, Barkway at which time Frank was working as a farm labourer.
He married Edith Emily Martin of Anstey, Herts in 1915 and lived in Biggin Hill, Anstey. Their daughter Sylvia May was born on 4 August 1915.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Anstey, Herts and joined the Royal Fusiliers, serving as a Lance Corporal.
Frank was killed in action on 19 September 1917, aged 26, and is buried in Albuera Cemetery, Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of 18s 9d. She also received a pension of 18s 9d a week for herself and her daughter. Her address on pension records was later changed to 36 Haycroft Road, Stevenage, Herts
*1 Probably more correctly (City of London) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
