Name
Frank Strudwick
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/06/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8151
Royal Irish Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Frank has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial to the fallen in Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
St Ippolyts Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church, We are not aware of any memorial in Gosmore, Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914-1918.
Pre War
Frank Strudwick was born in 1887, in St Ippolyts, Herts, son of Frank Strudwick and Harriet Strudwick (nee Brown). One of seven children.
1891 Census records Frank aged 4, living with his mother and three siblings, in Gosmore, St Ippollitts, Herts, his grandmother Eliza Brown was also living with the family. His father Frank senior was working away from home.
1901 Census records Frank aged 14, working as a Wood Carters Labourer, living with his widowed mother and younger brother Edward 9, in Gosmore, St Ippollitts, Herts.
1911 Census finds Frank in Ireland working as a Domestic Servant (Postman) for the Marquis of Waterford, Henry De La Poer, in Curraghmore, Portlaw, Co Waterford, Ireland.
Wartime Service
Frank enlisted in Waterford, Ireland, joining the Royal Irish Regiment, with the service number 8151.
He disembarked in France on the 28th June 1915. He was Killed in Acton on the 7th June 1917, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the fallen.
His younger brother Edward was Killed in Action on 1st October 1918, he is buried in the CWGC Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
His mother was awarded a Dependents Pension of 10/- a week from the 1st September 1917. Her address was 56, Townsend Place, St Ippollitts, Herts. Some records give his Rank as Lance Corporal.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Stuart Osborne
