Standish. Frank Harold

Was born in Hoyland, he was the son of Harry Standish of 31, Hill Street, Elsecar, he enlisted at Attercliffe and was killed in action on the 27th March, 1916, while serving on the Western Front.

 

Memorial Plaque, Holy Trinity Church, Elsecar

 

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Plaque  reads,

In most Grateful Memory of

the undermentioned

Parishioners of Elsecar

who laid down their lives

in the Great War 1914 - 18

 

 

 

 

"Faithful Unto Death" 

Picture by George Horner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Elsecar Working Men's
Club and Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roll of Honour 

Postcard Discovered by David Laban

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elsecar Comrades who Died in the Great War

 

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Fred Dickens 1st /5th Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Died 4th December, 1915.
John Peel 1st Bn. Kings Own Yokshire Light Infantry. Died 8th May, 1915.
Frank H. Standish 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 27th March, 1916.
George H. Taylor 13th Bn. York & Lancaster Regt. Died 18th September, 1918.
William Camplin 2nd/5th York & Lancaster Regt. Died 21st May, 1917.
John Cope 111th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 16th October, 1918.
Fred Kaye 9th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. Died 24th October, 1918.  

Postcard Discovered by David Laban

 

 

 

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Frank Harold Standish's name,

Menin Gate Memorial,

Ieper, Belgium. 

Picture by June & Peter  Marsden

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