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Private Frank Horsfall
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Private Frank Horsfall Veteran

Birth
Marsden, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England
Death
3 May 1917 (aged 27)
Monument
Arras, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
Bay 6.
Memorial ID
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Service No: 241651
Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), 2nd/5th Bn.
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Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

HORSFALL, FRANK. Private. No 241651. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Marsden. Son of Edwin and Rebecca Horsfall, 5 Wood Top, Marsden. Employed as a weaver at Bank Bottom Mills, Marsden. Attended Marsden Parish Church and was a member of the Socialist Institute. Enlisted March, 1916, and embarked for France in January, 1917. Reported missing, presumed killed, at the Battle of Bullecourt, 3.5.1917, aged 28 years. Has no known grave.

Commemorated ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
ROH:- Huddersfield Drill Hall; Marsden War Memorial.
Service No: 241651
Regiment/Service: Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), 2nd/5th Bn.
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Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

HORSFALL, FRANK. Private. No 241651. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Marsden. Son of Edwin and Rebecca Horsfall, 5 Wood Top, Marsden. Employed as a weaver at Bank Bottom Mills, Marsden. Attended Marsden Parish Church and was a member of the Socialist Institute. Enlisted March, 1916, and embarked for France in January, 1917. Reported missing, presumed killed, at the Battle of Bullecourt, 3.5.1917, aged 28 years. Has no known grave.

Commemorated ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
ROH:- Huddersfield Drill Hall; Marsden War Memorial.

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