Basic Details
Surname
Kear
Forenames
Frank
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra detail. He went to Rastrick Grammar School and then worked as a clerk for a dyeing company before enlisting in August 1914. He was shot in the back and lungs during the failed attack by the regiment of the Schwaben Redoubt on 3rd September 1916: his parents visited him in 4 General Hospital in Camiers but he relapsed and died. He is also commemorated on IWM 2738 and 2603.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Country of burial
France
Town of burial
Etaples
Year of death
1916
Month of death
October
Day of death
15
Age at death
21
Manner of death as stated
Not stated on this memorial
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds