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Private Frank Jessop Lister

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Private Frank Jessop Lister Veteran

Birth
Death
6 Jul 1916 (aged 22)
Burial
Abbeville, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France Add to Map
Plot
IV. F. 16.
Memorial ID
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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:

LISTER, FRANK JESSOP. Private. No 2761. 1/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born 8 King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield, 13.4.1894. Son of Captain Albert Edward Lister (also of the 5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment) and Jane Elizabeth Lister, Brier Edge, 8 King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield. Educated at Huddersfield College. Employed as a mechanical engineer. Played cricket with the Almondbury Club. Single. Enlisted August 1914. Embarked for France in April, 1915. Came home on leave in June, 1916. Suffered serious gunshot wounds to both thighs on 2.7.1916. Died of wounds at No 2 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, on 6.7.1916, aged 22 years.

Buried ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 4, Row F, Grave 16.
ROH:- Huddersfield Drill Hall; Almondbury War Memorial.
Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

LISTER, FRANK JESSOP. Private. No 2761. 1/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born 8 King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield, 13.4.1894. Son of Captain Albert Edward Lister (also of the 5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment) and Jane Elizabeth Lister, Brier Edge, 8 King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield. Educated at Huddersfield College. Employed as a mechanical engineer. Played cricket with the Almondbury Club. Single. Enlisted August 1914. Embarked for France in April, 1915. Came home on leave in June, 1916. Suffered serious gunshot wounds to both thighs on 2.7.1916. Died of wounds at No 2 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, on 6.7.1916, aged 22 years.

Buried ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 4, Row F, Grave 16.
ROH:- Huddersfield Drill Hall; Almondbury War Memorial.

Gravesite Details

Private, 5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Died of wounds. Son of Albert Edward and Jane Elizabeth Lister, of Huddersfield, Yorks. Age 22.


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  • Maintained by: DC
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56468222/frank_jessop-lister: accessed ), memorial page for Private Frank Jessop Lister (13 Apr 1894–6 Jul 1916), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56468222, citing Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Abbeville, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Maintained by DC (contributor 50456118).