FRANK WHILDE |
Corporal 4980673
2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt).
Died Thursday 30th Nov 1944 aged 25
No known grave
Cassino Memorial, Italy
Frank & fellow classmates at Jacksdale School 1932, Standard 7. Back row, far right.
Little is known about Frank, but a local resident has informed us that prior to joining up, Frank was a plumber, apprenticed to Mr Wilbraham. Photographs of past pupils of Jacksdale School, indicate that Frank was a pupil there in 1932.
Frank was killed in action whilst patrolling the Monte Grande Sector of Italy.
He is commemorated on the Cassino Memorial, Italy, which commemorates over 4,000 men with no known graves who fell in the assaults upon the shores of Sicily and Italy or in later battles to free Italian soil.
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