Name
Frank J Negus
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27372
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross
Pre War
Frank J. Negus was born in Clevering, Essex, in 1891, son of John Negus a, Horse keep on a Farm and Martha (List) Negus. One of eight children although one died in infancy.
1901 Census records Frank aged 10, living with his parents three brothers and three sisters at, 63 College Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, Frank (20) is single and working as a Nurseryman, living with his parents, two sisters and two brothers at, 1 Rounton Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Northamptonshire Regiment with the service number 27372
He initially served with the 2nd Battalion later transferred to the 1st Battalion. Seeing action on the Western Front.
Frank sustained a shell wound to the face and admitted to 149th Field Ambulance on 11th November 1917, on his recovery he returned to his Battalion on the front line.
He was Killed in Action on 29th October 1918, aged 27. He has no known grave he is Commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial to the missing in France.
Additional Information
His effects of £11-8-2, pay owing and his war gratuity of £12-10-00, went to his mother Martha Negus.
His elder brother Private 6665 Albert George Negus of the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) died on 22nd December 1916, of wounds received in action.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
