Name
Frank Auger
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26772
Wiltshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Brighton War Memorial, Sussex, St Peters Memorial Book & St Marks Parish Church, Kemp Town, Brighton
Pre War
Frank
Auger was born in 1886 in Saffron Walden, Essex to James and Sophia Auger and
baptised there on 21 August 1886. He married Emily Trundle in 1908 in Bishop's
Stortford. They were living at 22 Elm Grove, Bishop's Stortford on the 1911
Census, with their daughter Florence and son Reginald and Frank was employed as
a brickmaker. It is assumed they moved to Sussex later as he was living in
Sussex on enlistment.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted in Rottingdean, Sussex and served with the Wiltshire Regiment. He was killed in action in France.
Additional Information
His widow Emily received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 11s 2d. N.B. Listed as 'Anger' on some memorials and documents and 'Auger' on others. On birth registration the surname is definitely 'Auger'. Brother to Joseph and Victor Auger also named on Bishop's Stortford Memorial. His widow Emily received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 11s 2d. N.B. Listed as 'Anger' on some memorials and documents and 'Auger' on others. On birth registration the surname is definitely 'Auger'. Brother to Joseph and Victor Auger also named on Bishops Stortford Memorial. This auction lot was sold in 2012 in Leyburn, Yorkshire by Tennants auctioneers: The Auger Family at War :- a First World War Pair and Memorial Plaque, awarded to 3020 PTE.F.(FRANK) AUGER. R.SUSS.R., together with letters and ephemera including a telegram to his wife informing her he had been killed in action, a letter from his Company Sergeant Major, another from a fellow soldier who helped to bury him, photographs, Death Certificate, Arras Memorial booklets etc **Private Frank Auger 26772, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment (Formerly 6/3020, Sussex Regiment). Killed in action 24 April 1917, aged 30. No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7 The Auger Family at War :- a First World War Pair and Memorial Plaque, awarded to 3020 PTE.F.(FRANK) AUGER. R.SUSS.R., together with letters and ephemera including a telegram to his wife informing her he had been killed in action, a letter from his Company Sergeant Major, another from a fellow soldier who helped to bury him, photographs, Death Certificate, Arras Memorial booklets etc **Private Frank Auger 26772, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment (Formerly 6/3020, Sussex Regiment). Killed in action 24 April 1917, aged 30. No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
