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Surname: BARRETT
Forename(s): Frank
Place of Birth: Keighley, Yorkshire
Service No: 34084
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion
Division: 6th Division
Age: 34
Date of Death: 1916-10-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 2 A 2 C and 2 D.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SILSDEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Frank Barrett was the son of John and Mary Barrett, née Bilsborough. John was born at Sutton-in-Craven and Mary at Crosshills, Yorkshire.
1881 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 12, Church Street - Frank Barrett, aged 11 months, born Keighley, son of John and Mary Barrett.
1891 Silsden, Yorkshire Census: 28, Kirkgate - Frank Barrett, aged 10 years, born Cross Hills, Yorkshire, son of John and Mary Barrett.
1901 Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 41, Rider Road - Frank Barrett, aged 20 years, born Keighley, Yorkshire son of John and Mary Barrett.
Frank was married to Annie Harrison in 1905.
1911 Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 13, Jameson Street, Meanwood - Frank Barrett, aged 30 years, born Keighley, Yorkshire, husband of Annie Barrett.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Frank Barrett, 34084, W. York. R. K. in A. 19.10.16.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Frank Barrett, 34084, 1st W. York. R. Killed in Action 19.10.16.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Frank Barrett, 34084, 1st Bn W. Yorks Regt. Date and Place of Death: 10.9.16 [sic] in action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow and Sole Legatee - Annie. £5 9s. 11d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Frank. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Annie, born 19.12.1891. Marriage: 10.6.1905. Address: 13, Jameson Street, Meanwood Road, Leeds. Children: Stanley, born 18.2.1906.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
BARRETT, Frank, aged 35, West Riding Regiment, son of Mr. John Barrett, Moorcroft Street, Ossett, and formerly of Kirkgate, Silsden, killed in action Oct. 16, 1916.
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 6th Division
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10 November 1916
SILSDEN - KILLED IN ACTION
Information has been received that Private Frank Barrett, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Barrett, 293, Bradford Road, Keighley, and who formerly resided in Kirkgate, Silsden, has been killed in action.
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10 November 1916
BARRETT - Killed in action, Oct. 19th, 1916, aged 35, Private Frank Barrett, West Yorks. Regiment, of Leeds, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Barrett (formerly of Kirkgate, Silsden).
He died nobly doing his duty.
10 November 1916
FORMER SILSDEN SOLDIER KILLED
Mr. and Mrs. J. Barrett, of 293, Bradford Road, Keighley, and who formerly resided in Kirkgate, Silsden, have received information that their youngest son, Pte. Frank Barrett, was killed in action on October 19th.
17 November 1916
FORMER SILSDEN SOLDIER KILLED
Pte. Frank Barrett (35) of the West Yorkshire Regiment, who is reported to have been killed at the Front on the 16th October, was the second son of Mr. John Barrett, of Moorcroft Street, off Church Street, Ossett, and formerly of Kirkgate, Silsden. The deceased, who was a married man, and for some years lived in Leeds, where he was formerly employed by the Corporation as a gas-meter inspector, joined the forces about last Whitsuntide, and within thirteen weeks was serving at the Front. He had completed his first four days in the trenches and was being relieved when he was instantly killed by the explosion of an enemy shell. Workmates in the same regiment, who speak highly of him, interred him and erected a cross over his grave. The deceased was well-known and high respected in Silsden, his father for a number of years being secretary of the Silsden Liberal Association.
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