57308, Private, Frank Dudley STAGG
Aged 28
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Born in Newmarket in Q4-1889 [Newmarket 3b:521] to Frank Dudley and Mary Ann STAGG (née GORE) of Trevethans Cottages, Icewell Hill, Newmarket.
His mother died shortly after his birth, in Q1-1890. 1891 census...Frank [2] was at Icewell Hill with his widowed father Frank [42] a stableman born Nottingham, and his sisters Fanny [21], Ellenor [19] Annie [13], Louisa [8], Hetty [6] and Lilly A [4]. All the children were born in Newmarket. 1901 census...Frank [11] was still at Icewell Hill with his father and sisters Annie and Lily. 2nd January 1910 Frank Dudley STAGG [21](pastry cook) married Elizabeth LEECH [28] in Kennington. 1911 census...Frank [22] was a baker, living at 14 Montford Place, Kennington, London with his wife and daughter Agnes Beryl [10 months] born Kennington. His father was still in Newmarket at Icewell Hill, with his sister Louisa. It is believed that it was his nephew George (son of sister Louisa) died whilst a prisoner of the Japanese in 1943.. see here |
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Frank enlisted in Kennington The Battle of Polygon Wood, fought on 26 September 1917, was the second ‘bite and hold’ operation of the Third Battle of Ypres. There is no way of telling at present to which regiment or battalion Frank was attached. 2 others of his company died that day, a total of 61 of the Machine Gun Corps perished, and 40, like Frank, have no known graves. |
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