Name
Frank Healing
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lincolnshire Regiment
2/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
In the 1911 Census Frank Healing was listed working as a Baker and boarding with Bricklayer Richard Baldwin and his family at 33 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead. He was born in the autumn of 1891 at Abbots Langley, and at the time of the 1901 Census was living at Bedmond with his parents, brother, sister and three other extended family members. His father, Henry Healing, worked as a Horseman on a Farm. Frank’s elder brother, Leonard, also served in the Great War.
Frank was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in December 1915, serving with the Army Service Corps (ASC). Although the Magazine noted that he was serving with the Lincolnshire Regiment in January 1918, it is anticipated that he transferred from the ASC sometime in 1917.
In September 1918 the Parish Magazine reported that Frank was serving with the 2/5th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and had been captured and was a Prisoner of War in Germany. The Battalion had suffered badly during the German Spring Offensive in 1918 at the Battles of St Quentin and Bapaume on the Somme Front, and were once again badly mauled when they moved to the Ypres Sector, and faced the German onslaught once more at the Battles of Bailleul and Kemmel Ridge. After these actions, on 8th May 1918 the 2/5th Lincoln’s were withdrawn and later disbanded and combined with the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. It is anticipated that Frank was captured during these actions.
Frank survived the War, as did his brother Leonard.
Additional Information
Prisoner of War, Formerly Army Service Corps. Rank unknown.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
