Name
Frank Halfhide
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/03/1921
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
88890
Machine Gun Corps
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HODDESDON CEMETERY
4. N2.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park, Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born in 1889 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of Charles William and Martha Halfhide. He was a malster’s labourer and lived in High Oak Road, Ware in 1891 and in 10 North Road, Hoddesdon in 1901 and 1911.
He married Blanche E Thurgill in 1913 in Ware and she lived at 10 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Jan 1917 formerly Norfolk Regiment. While he was attending to a wounded comrade he suffered a penetrating wound to the chest on 24 Aug 1918 and was evacuated to a casualty clearing station (Forces War Record).
He was repatriated to a London Hospital and finally to Hertford County Hospital on 23 May 1919 where he stayed until he died.
Additional Information
Not in CWGC list.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
