Name
Frank Chard
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8223
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
21st Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 90 to 93.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Frank Chard was born in Pwllgwaun, Glamorganshire, Wales, in 1897, son of John Chard a, Stockman on a Farm and Louisa Jane Chard (nee Hunt). One of five Children.
1901 Census records Frank aged 4, living with his parents, brother John (6) and sister Florence (1) in, Broomclose Cottages, Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire.
1911 Census records Frank aged 13, at school, living with his parents, brother John (16), sisters Florence (11) and Louisa (7) in, Higher Shepton, Somerset. The family later moved to Waltham Abbey, Essex, where brother George Chard was born in March 1912.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted at Tottenham, Middx, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number L/16196. Later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps with the service number 8223.
Seeing action on the Western Front. He was reported missing presumed killed in action between 21st & 24th March 1918. Assumed killed in action on 21st March 1918.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing in France.
Additional Information
His effects of £12-00s-02d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £14-10s-00d, went to his mother Louisa Jane Chard. SDITGW Record Frank as born in Cheshunt, Herts, birth records have him as born in Pwllgwaun, Glam, Wales.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
