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Frank Austin Sherlock

Rank:RiflemanNumber:S/29063*
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:03rd Bn
Name of Rgt or Ship:Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)
Died:22/03/1918Age:25
How Died:Killed in Action
Country of burial:France
Cemetery or Memorial:Pozieres Memorial, Ovillers-la-Boiselle
Town Memorial:Sale
Extra Information:
Born during the September quarter 1892 in the Dartford R.D. - ref: 2a/516,
the son of Frederick Austin & Emma Sherlock (nee Hodge).

1901 Census - Ivy House, West End, Kemsing, Kent.   Grandson - aged: 8 -
born: Ash, Kent.      Head of household - Edward Hodges (sic) - Married -
aged: 57 - occ: Farm Bailiff - born: Isle of Sheppy, Kent.    Also Ann
Hodges - Wife - aged: 56 - born: Maidstone, Kent.

His parents were residing on their own at 104 Shakespeare Road, Lambeth.   
His father was employed as a Yard Foreman in Coal Merchants.

1911 Census - 104 Shakespeare Road, Herne Hill, Lambeth. SE London.   Son -
aged: 18 - occ: Clerk in Corn Merchants - born: Ash, Kent.   Head of
household - Frederick Austin Sherlock - Married - aged: 43 - occ: Foreman
in Corn Merchants - born: Wandsworth, London.  Also - Emma Sherlock - Wife
- aged: 39 - born: Aylesbury, Kent.

Formerly 1337 K.E.H.

Rifleman Sherlock died on the second day of the final German offensive in
March 1918.

Listed as Frederick A. Sherlock on St. Anne's Church Memorial, but that was
his father's name.  F.A. Sherlock on the Sale Town Memorial.

I have not been able to work out Frank's connection to Sale.

Memorials found on:
St. Anne's (Sale Moor)
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