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Corporal John Frampton of the 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died the 16 Jun 1915, a victim of a gas attack on the Western Front, and he was afforded a military funeral at St Nicholas Church, Beverley. The Beverley Guardian reported that "it was the most imposing military funeral witnessed in Beverley for many years". An escort of some 400 members of the East Yorkshire Regiment attended from Victoria Barracks under the command of Captain Holmes and led by the regimental band. A firing party fired three volleys over the grave and the buglers sounded the "Last Post".
John Frampton was born in Birmingham in 1875, as a young man he joined the East Yorkshire Regiment and served for 18 years. Thirteen of those years in India and the remainder at Victoria Barracks, Beverley. He regarded Beverley as his adopted town and in 1910 he married a Beverley girl, Agnes Ann Dawson, daughter of George and Emma Dawson. John Frampton was well known in Beverley as a singer of humorous songs, frequently taking part in local concerts. Having retired from the regular army, and while working on the tramways in his native Birmingham, he joined the 8th Royal Warwickshire Territorials. He embarked for France in Mar 1915. In May 1915 he was one of some half dozen men who were overcome by a cloud of poisonous gas and he spent a fortnight in a base hospital in France, followed by a month in Edmonton Military Hospital in Middlesex where he died. He is commemorated on the WW1 Roll of Honour in Birmingham
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