Private Frank Hough, 19321
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- Unit - Grenadier Guards
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- Date of Birth - 1889
- Died - 25/09/1916
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Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Frank Hough was born in Crewe in 1889, the youngest son of Harriet and Joseph Hough a schoolmaster in Cheshire. The 1911 census records Frank as a Gardener at Gopsall Hall near Congerstone. Frank enlisted in Stafford under service number 19321 with the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards and was killed in action on the 25th September 1916 at Lesboeufs on the Somme. He is remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 8D.
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Submitted by I. Vickers in 2015
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Place of death - Lesboeufs, Somme
- Birth Place - Crewe
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Memorial - CONGERSTONE MEM.
