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Also of their youngest son
Frank Ernest
Lieutenant 13th Bn K.R.R.C.
Killed in action in France
August 25th 1918
Aged 25 years
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Tewkesbury Cemetery
Gloucestershire
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Frank Ernest
Hale
1893
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
25th August 1918
Killed instantaneaously by a machine gun bullet leading his men with several other officers near Favreuil in France
25
Bucqouy Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
First World War
Second Lieutenant
13th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
Gloucestershire Regiment
Went to France with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1915 before receiving a commission from Sergeant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in January 1917. He was a qualified teacher and had just begun teaching at the local Council School after training at Bristol University.
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