Notes
The Roll lists his address as The Firs, Eastfield Road. It records his rank as Captain, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Lieutenant F. Walshaw died on 20/9/1918 serving in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached to the 1st Battalion of the 101st Indian Grenadiers. He is commemorated on Panel 57 of Jerusalem Memorial in Israel and Palestine.
Frank Walshaw's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1883. His baptism on 20/9/1883, as the son of John William and Annie Maria Walshaw, was recorded in the register of St Mary's Church in Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at 277 Eastfield Road, Peterborough.
According to the ship's manifest of the SS Mantiana, Frank left England on 11/9/1908 bound for Madras. Following the outbreak of War, he enlisted in India as a Private in the Grenadiers, and was sent to South Africa.. His commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Reserve of Officers was published in the London Gazette on 5/5/1916.
On 19/8/1916 the Peterborough Standard reported that he had sustained a serious shoulder wound. He was invalided back to the UK for treatment, then rejoined the Army and returned to India. He then saw action in Egypt before being sent to Palestine. His promotion to Lieutenant from 30/11/1916 appeared in the London Gazette on 24/7/1917. His death on 20/9/1918 was reported on the Peterborough Standard on 26/10/1918.
Frank Walshaw is commemorated on his parents' headstone in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough - see WMR ref 70028).