Memorial details

Memorial type
Addition to gravestone
District
Holderness
Town
Ottringham
County
Humberside
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
35222

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Current location

St Wilfrids Church
Sunk Island Road
Ottringham
Holderness
Humberside
HU12 0DS
England

OS Grid Ref: TA 26811 24445
Denomination: Church of England

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Description
A broad checked top headstone with incised inscription, standing at the top of a kerbed and concrete topped grave plot.
Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ JOHN W.D. FRANKISH/ DIED SEP 25TH 1946./ ALSO LUCY ANN, HIS WIFE/ DIED OCT 16TH 1941./ ALSO/ NOEL, THEIR SON/ KILLED AT JUTLAND MAY 31ST 1916.
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Frankish, G W N
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Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: year died,place of death,forename
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Gravestone
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Stone
Listing information
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Private
Reference
  • Yorkshire Heroes, Vol. I: A Journey from Hull to Withernsea around Hornsea and Back to Hull Again, Malcolm Mann (1995), p. 57.

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