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Private Frank Holliday, aged 19 from Beverley, was killed in action on 23 Apr 1917. He served in the Yorkshire Regiment (The Green Howards), the 4th Battalion. Two other Beverley men in the 4th Battalion also died that day in the same battle-Private John Robinson, aged 22, of Walkergate and Private Tom Smelt, aged 24, of Lurk Lane, both fellow employees of Frank at Hodgson and Sons’ Tannery. Frank’s body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Arras, France. He was posthumously awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Frank was born in Beverley in 1897. His family lived at 9 Beckside and Frank is commemorated on the Beckside Street Shrine. His parents were Thomas and Annie Holliday; Thomas came from Hull, Annie (nee Fawcett) from Woodmansey. Frank had an older brother Harry born 1 Jan 1896 and a younger brother, Charles born 1900 who died in 1906. Frank was employed as an errand boy at a stationery business in Beverley. Later he worked as a tanners’ labourer at Hodgson and Sons. He was unmarried.
Frank is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial in Beverley and the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster
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