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The Roll lists his address as 16 New Road, Woodston. It misrecords his forenames as "Frank Redwell Walein", and his unit at death as "Household Brigade, 2nd Life Guards".
(CWGC records that Corporal Frank Redwell Waklin Morris, regimental number 709, died aged 21 on 19/2/1917 serving in the Household Battalion, and is now buried in grave VII.E.29 at Fins New British Cemetery at Sorel le Grand in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of Mr & Mrs F G Morris of 16 New Road, Woodston, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Acting Corporal Frank Redwell Waklin Morris died on 19/2/1917; his father Frederick was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that Frank had served as a Trooper in the 2nd Life Guards under regimental number 3225 before joining the Household Battalion under regimental number 709. He disembarked in France on 17/10/1915. His 1915 Star medal was issued under regimental number 3225; his British and Victory medals were issued under regimental number 709. On the 1911 census Frank had been living with his parents Frederick George and Mary Esther Morris at 16 New Road, Woodston. His birth is recorded in the General Register Office's 1895 Birth Index as "Frank Rodwell W M Morris", registered in the Peterborough District.
When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 10/3/1917 he was reported to have joined the 2nd Life Guards in November 1914. Having gone to France in October 1915, he had been invalided home in January 1916. He had transferred to the Household Battalion and had returned to France in November 1916. He had been slightly wounded in January 1917 and killed in action on 19/2/1917. A letter from stretcher-bearer Trooper Tyler, who had helped to bury Frank, was quoted as stating that he had died within two minutes of being shot).