Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Thiepval Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After March 1916	~	Kineton
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Battle of the Somme	March 1916 at Leamington Spa
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Ovillers	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Frank is listed as being killed in action on 18 Aug 1916. The war diary for that day is transcribed below.

Ovillers - 18th - In trenches: Took part in attack with 1/5th R War R and 4th R Berks Rco-operated on right. Held up for a short time on right by German strong post but soon succeeded in taking whole objectives capturing 6 officers and 245 other ranks including large number of N.C.O.s.

Casualties Capt R C Lowe; 2nd Lt A.J.B Pearson; Lt C.J,. Crocket; 2nd Lt H.S. Skillington; 2nd Lt Lomax; 2nd Lt Phaggo killed. Capt B Hargreave, 2nd Lt Seddon & 2nd Lt Shelton wounded. O.R. 23 killed 90 wounded and 10 missing. END