Name
Frank William Bacon
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/12/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Essex Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SOUTHGATE CEMETERY
Q. 756.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Cricket Club Memorial Plaque, Great Dunmow War memorial, Essex
Pre War
Frank William Bacon was born in 1882 in Islington, London the youngest son of James and Elizabeth Bacon. Said to be a good cricketer, he was educated at Felstead School from January 1894 to July 1900, where he played on the Cricket XI from 1899-1900. On the 1901 Census he and 3 of his siblings were living with his widowed father at 2 Avenue Road, St Marylebone. By 1911 his father had remarried and the family were living at Olives, Dunmow, Essex and working as a sawyer.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he was a second lieutenant in the Essex Territorials and was promoted captain of the 1/5th Essex Regiment early in 1915. He went out to the Dardanelles and was at the Suvla Bay landings, where he was wounded and invalided home.
He re-joined his regiment in Egypt and was wounded in the first Battle of Gaza in 26 March 1917 and again on 2 November 1917, when his foot was badly shattered by a bomb.
He was returned home to recover from his injuries but succumbed to pneumonia and died on 4 November 1918.
He had married on Zennie Grimes 7 August 1918, the daughter of Mr G Grimes of Hook, Hants.
Additional Information
His widow received his pay owing of £232 17s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.essexvoicespast.com
