Frank Gordon Ensor
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Corporal 1720
Parents: Anna Maria and Willian Ensor
Home address: 1 Cowper Street, Redfield, Bristol. 7 Pilemarsh Road, Redfield, Bristol.
Pre-war occupation: Labourer to a plumber
Date of birth: 1895
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 25/08/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery (Ref VIII. B. 161.), Pas de Calais, France. Not commemorated on a local memorial
Age: 21
Further information:
Frank enlisted in 1914 as a bombardier and was promoted to Corporal in the same year. Frank served with "B" Battery, 80th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery. In summer 1915 B Battery was mobilised and saw action in both Gallipoli and France. In 1916, in the month before his death, Frank's Battery was fighting in the Battles of The Somme. Frank was mortally wounded and his mother crossed the English Channel with his half-sister Polly to see him in hospital. He died in the 13th Stationary Hospital, a specialist unit for the treatment of eye, face and jaw injuries, that had been set up in Boulogne two years previously.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
General Hospital, Boulogne. 1914-1919 The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 45(3):229-235 ยท January 2015
Some information supplied by Kingswood Heritage Museum