Name
Frank Gurney
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/08/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
9647
Leinster Regiment, (Royal Canadians)
2nd Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on Tring Memorials
Pre War
Frank Gurney was born in 1894 to George Swan Gurney, carpenter, and Harriet (nee Brackley).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Frank, George (born 1896) and Arthur (born 1900) were living at 3, Cheverey Cottage, St Leonards, Aston Clinton, Bucks.
Frank enlisted in the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) as Private 9467 probably around Jan 1910.
On the 1911 Census Frank was serving with the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) in 1st Battalion in barracks at Davenport, the family of parents, George (jobbing Gardener) and Arthur were living at Lane End Cottages, St Leonards, Tring.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Frank. At the outbreak of the Great War Frank was serving in the 2nd Battalion at Cork in Ireland, and returning to UK were landed at St Nazaire on 12 Sep 1914 as part of 17 Brigade 6 Division arriving on the Aisne just as the British Expeditionary Force moved into Flanders. On 14 Oct 1915 they were transferred to 24 Division and on 19 Oct transferred to 73 Brigade in that division at the Battle of Loos. At some time Frank was promoted to Corporal.
In 1916 the Division took part in the Battles of the Somme at the Battle of Delville Wood (15 Jul- 3 Sep). It was in this last action the Frank was reported killed, his remains were not recovered and he is remembered in the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Franc
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £12 10s and arrears of £20 6s 10d was paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
