Name
Frank Drayton
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/02/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Shoeing Smith
1236
Royal Field Artillery
1st North Midland Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
E. 2. 24.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Frank Drayton was born in 1890 in Brigg, Lincolnshire to John and Martha Drayto n and baptised on 5 November 1890 at Glanford Brigg, Lincs.
On the 1911 Census he was boarding at Barton on Humber, Lincs and working as a blacksmith. He married Sarah Jane Markham in 1913 at Grimsby, Lincs was living at 3 Humber Street, Cleethorpes when he enlisted. They had two children Jack (1913) and Priscilla (1915).
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted on 31 August 1914 and joined the 1st North Midland Brigade, RFA on enlistment but only served 179 days.
He was admitted to the VAD Hospital at Haymeads, Bishop's Stortford, with cerebro spinal meningitis on 1 January and died 26 February 1915.
Additional Information
A war gratuity was not admissible due to insufficient service and only £1 was paid to his widow and child. However she did receive a pension of 18s 6d a week for herself and her two children. She married Thomas Bramer in Grantham in 1920 and lived in Pond Street, Gt Gonerby, Grantham
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
