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Frank was born in Beverley in 1891, the second of six sons of William Scoffin, a joiner in Beverley and Betsy. He attended Minster Boys' School up to the age of 14. In 1911 aged 19 he employed as a salesman in an implement store.
Frank enlisted in Sep 1914 in the 7th (Hull) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, and had attained the rank of Sergeant by Apr 1916, when he was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. The MGC embarked for France in Jul 1916, and in Sep 1916 Frank was reported in the Beverley Guardian as having been hospitalised, "suffering from shellshock". In Mar 1917 he rejoined the BEF in France and continued to serve with the Machine Gun Corps until the end of the war, by which time he had been appointed Acting CSM. He was demobilised in Mar 1919, and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
His brother Walter was killed in Mar 1918, but brothers Harry and George William both survived.
Frank married Mabel Helen Chambers of Beverley in Nov 1918; they had two daughters, Dorothy Barbara born 1920, and Joan Beryl born 1922. They lived in Bridlington, where Frank in 1939 was a traveller (salesman) of Agricultural Implements. Frank died in 1947 aged 55.
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