A/S Frank French Hood Bn RND d. 16/11/16

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: FRENCH, FRANK

Initials: F

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Able Seaman

Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: Hood Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death: 16/11/1916

Service No: London Z/2214

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. B. 15.

Cemetery: PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

[Will O'Brien]

& the cemetery info

Cemetery: PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

Country: France

Locality: Somme

Location Information: Puchevillers is a village on the D11 about 19 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The British Cemetery is a little west of the village. The first Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost is situated by the church in the village.

Historical Information: In June 1916, just before the opening of the Battles of the Somme, the 3rd and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations came to Puchevillers. Plots I to V, and almost the whole of Plot VI were made by those hospitals before the end of March 1917. For the next two months the 2nd/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station used the cemetery. Plot VII contains for the most part the graves of men who died in the German advance in 1918, many of whom were buried by the 49th Clearing Station in March 1918, or by the 48th Labour Group in August. Puchevillers British Cemetery contains 1,763 First World War burials. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

No. of Identified Casualties: 1756

[michaeldr]

Alas, there is little to add regarding this hero of the Battle of the Ancre

J. H. Morcombe lists 83 fatalities for the Hood Battalion, 189th Inf. Bde., 63rd (RN) Div. in this battle and he gives AB Frank French as Died of Wounds aged 20 years