Frank Lunniss.

Frank Lunniss - He was a Private [20856] in the 1st/8th Territorial Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was killed in action on Sunday the 27th August 1916 whilst serving in France and Flanders at the age of 18. Frank enlisted in Huntingdon as Private 1414 in the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion.  At the time he lived at Great Paxton. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B.  He had a brother Mr. H. Lunniss, of The Leeds Arms, Eltisley, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire

From a local paper dated  17/11/1917  - The Great Paxton Parish magazine notes the following:  Three youths from Great Paxton joined the Cyclist Battalion.  Together their average age was under 17.  Almost at the same time one of them, Frank Lunnis, was killed, another S. R. Saunders was reported missing, and the third, W. H. Bennett, has received five wounds.  The latter has been home, and is now undergoing an operation to have a portion of shell removed from his chest.

 
He is ccommemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B. 
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Thiepval Memorial.

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09/04/2012

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