Name
Frank Harold Hyde
9/03/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15637
Royal Sussex Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GRANDCOURT ROAD CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
A. 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family Headstone inscription.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross, Not on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Frank Harold Hyde was born in Fulham, Lon/Middx, on 9th March 1894, son of William W. Hyde a, Builders Labourer and Rosa/Rosetta Hyde (nee Monk). One of six children.
He was Baptised at St. Peters Church, Fulham, Lon/Middx, on the 3rd June 1894.
1901 Census records Frank aged (7) living with his widowed mother Rosa, sisters Florry (15), Rosa (10) and brother Walter (13) at, 8 John Street, Fulham, Lon/Middx.
1911 Census records Frank aged 17, working as a Nursery Garden Hand, living with his Mother and step father William Aldridge and brother John Hyde (4) at, 12 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Frank married Lily/Lilie Smith in 1913, the marriage was registered in Edmonton, Middx, they went on to have two children Ivy Annie Rosetta Hyde and Frank Harold Hyde.
Wartime Service
Frank travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist. Posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 5500. Later transferred to the 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment with the service number G/15637. Seeing action on the western Front.
Frank was Killed in Action on 21st October 1916, during an attack by the 11th & 13th Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment on Stuff Trench.
During the attack on the 21st October 1916, 3 Officers were wounded, Other Ranks, 30 missing, 71 Wounded, and 25 Killed, Frank being one of those Killed.
He is buried in the CWGC Grandcourt Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, France.
Additional Information
Lily received a widow’s pension of 22/11, a week from 25th June 1917, and his effects of £2-19-5, pay owing and his war gratuity of £4.
Her Pension record card gives her address as 28, Ridler Road, Baker Street, Enfield, Middx, the CWGC record her address as 8, White’s Cottages, Lancaster Road, Enfield, Middx.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Tim Hyde
