Notes
The Roll lists his address as 46 Princes Street. It states he died in Germany, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Frank Smith, regimental number 40717, died aged 30 on 16/10/1917 while serving in 1st Battalion Essex Regiment, formerly Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave A.7 at Conde sur L'Escaut Communal Cemetery in France. They record him as a native of Bury, Lancashire, the son of Thomas and Selina Smith of 46 Princes Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Bury who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted, and that he had served in the Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 5002 before joining the Essex Regiment; the Medal Rolls record that he served in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 26782. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at Conde (in France), and that his mother Selina was his legatee. On the 1891 census Frank was aged 4, living with his parents Selina and Thomas in Skipsea, Yorkshire. On the 1901 census he was living with them as 2 Prospect Villas, Bury, Huntingdonshire).