Name
Francis Greygoose
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
6173
King's Royal Rifle Corps
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 51 and 53.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Francis Greygoose was born in 1883 in Stanstead, Essex to
William and Eliza Greygoose. (N.B. Stanstead is in the Bishop's Stortford
registration district). He was serving in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in India
in 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 18 November 1904 so was already serving in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps at the outbreak of war. He had only been at the front for 2 months when he was killed, having served in France from 13 August 1914.
He died during the First Battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
His mother Eliza received a war gratuity of £5 and his pay owing was divided equally between his mother, brothers Jonas, Edward and Sidney, and sisters Rosina, Emily and Lucy.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
