Frank Amos James Whaley
A Gunner with 53 Anti-Aircraft Driver Training Regiment, Frank died on 7th of February 1941 aged 39.
Frank was born at Lowestoft on 1 June 1902, a son of Albert and Mary Ann Whaley. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 6 October 1902 and his family lived at 7 Factory Court. In 1911 his family lived at 1 Sterrys Cottages, London Road, Pakefield. From 6 January 1914 Frank was a pupil at Lovewell Road School and his family lived at 1 Smith’s Cottages, Kendal Road. The school admission register states that he left in March 1915 to go to Bungay. In 1921 Frank’s family lived at 34 Lawson Road and Frank was a bricklayer’s labourer for Machonichie Preserved Provision Manufacturers.
On 7 September 1929 Frank married Ethel Rita Edwards at Saint Margaret’s Church. Frank was a painter living at 34 Lawson Road and Ethel lived at 27 Princes Road. By 1939 they were living at 9 Saint Leonard’s Road and Frank was a railway employee.
Frank joined the Royal Artillery in 1930 and served until 1935. He re-enlisted in 1936 and served with the Territorial Army. He was mobilised when the war began and served with the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Driver Training Regiment, based at Edinburgh. Official casualty list 478 of 2 April 1941 shows that Frank was killed in action, but it seems that he was not with his regiment at the time as the list of civilian casualties in World War Two states that he died at the L.N.E.R. Harbour Yard, Lowestoft. He was buried at Kirkley Cemetery on 12 February 1941.
Frank’s brother-in-law, Sidney Arthur Edwards, served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and died in 1918.
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Frank Whaley
9
Saint Leonards Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
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