Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Perth Cemetery (China Wall)IV. E. 14.
2. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour34C GQS
    

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Family :

Son of John R. and A. Franks, of Marlborough, England; husband of Ida Ovidia Franks (nee Imsland), of 1, Talana Villa, Hope Rd., Rosebank, Cape Town. Served in the South African Campaign.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: 3rd Regt South African Infantry 

Action : The Battles of Ypres 1917 (Third Ypres, or Passchendaele) 

31 July - 10 November 1917. By the summer of 1917 the British Army was able for the first time to fight on its chosen ground on its terms. Having secured the southern ridges of Ypres at Messines in June, the main attack started on 31st July 1917 accompanied by what seemed like incessant heavy rain, which coupled with the artillery barrages conspired to turn much of the battlefield into a bog. Initial failure prompted changes in the high command and a strategy evolved to take the ring of ridges running across the Ypres salient in a series of 'bite and hold' operations, finally culminating in the capture of the most easterly ridge on which sat the infamous village of Passchendaele. The Official History carries the footnote ?The clerk power to investigate the exact losses was not available? but estimates of British casualties range from the official figure of 244,000 to almost 400,000. Within five months the Germans pushed the British back to the starting line, which was where they had been since May 1915.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Newcastle No. 2097 E.C.Natal

Initiated
Passed
Raised
13th July 1914
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Joined Newcastle Lodge from another constitution [N.C.?] Listed as a Chemist (1914). "Killed in Action Oct 1917."
Junior Deacon


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