Frank Garnett
In 1911 he was a farm servant
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Frank Garnett was born in Finningley in 1892. His parents were Samuel Park a platelayer and the late Ann Garnett (nee Scholes of Blaxton) and he had 4 elder brothers and 3 sisters.
His father Samuel Park was born in 1853 at Doncaster, his mother Annie Scholes was born in 1861 at Blaxton, Yorkshire, she died in 1896 aged 35 yrs,they were married on 13th June 1881 at Finningley, they had 8 children, sadly 1 was to die in infancy or early childhood.
When Frank was 3 years old his mother died aged just 35 and when 18, he was lodging at Kirk Sandal, Doncaster working as a farm servant.
In the 1911 census his widowed father is living at Station Yard, Doncaster he is 57 yrs and is a platelayer, he is living with his children, Sarah 21 yrs no occupation listed and Annie 17 yrs no occupation listed.
It appears that he moved on to Wakefield prior to his enlistment at Pontefract. He lived just long enough to see the marriage of his sister, Sarah Jane, to Charles Drinkall, another soldier on the Finningley Roll of Honour, in 1915, before being killed.
Private Frank Garnett enlisted at Pontefract, he served with the 6th battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, he died of wounds on 21st November 1915 , he is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery.
Pte F Garnett Retford Times 31 Dec 1915:-
Mr Samuel Garnett of Finningley, has received news of the death of his youngest son, Pte F Garnett, 6th Batt, West Yorks Regt on Nov 8 and died in hospital on Nov 21.
Died of wounds and remembered on Etaples Military Cemetery
CWG additional information:- Son of Samuel and the late Ann Garnett of Station Cottages, Finningley, Doncaster.
Research by Colin Dannattand additional research Peter Gillings
Frank Garnett
Commonwealth war grave headstone marking his grave at Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Courtesy of Murray Biddle