Name
Francis William George Andrews
14 Aug 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17814
Devonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Potters Bar memorials
Pre War
Francis William George Andrews was born in Whitechapel on 14 Aug 1890 (baptised 31 Aug 1890 at St James the Great) to Richard George Andrews, a bookseller, and Eleanor Emily (nee French). The family lived at 42 Old Michael Street.
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Annie Eleanor (born 1881) and Francis were living at 2 Goulston Street, Whitechapel.
On the 1901 Census Francis was living with his widowed mother and Annie Eleanor at 16 Cross Street, Hatton Cross, London.
On the 1911 Census Francis, working as a bookseller, was living with his mother, and Annie Eleanor at 29 Percival Road, Clerkenwell.
Francis married Mabel Emily Grace Curtis in 1914 in Walthamstow, London.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Francis.
He enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment as Private 17814 and posted to 2nd Battalion who had been in France since Nov 1914. On 1st Jul 1916 the battalion as parts of 8 Division took part in the disastrous attack either side of the Albert-Bapaume Road at la Boiselle. It was during this action that Francis became one of the Missing. His death was later presumed to be 1 Jul 1916 and as his remains were not recovered.
He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 and arrears of 35 15s 9d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
