Frank Garrick Eite
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Frank Garrick's birth was registered in 1870 (J/F/M Radford). He was the son of James and Frances Eite and the brother of Thomas, Frances, Jack, Arthur and Sally. In 1871 the family lived on Carlton Road, in 1881 at 186 Arkwright Street Meadows and in 1891 at 31 Trent Bridge Footway Meadows (all Nottingham). Frank married Elizabeth Fish (b. 1872) in 1892 and they had four children: Frank Garrick b. 1893, Amy Garrick b. 1897, Frances Garrick b. 1902 and Walter b. 1907. In 1901 Frank, a grocer's van man, and Elizabeth were living at 20 Bunbury Street, Meadows, with their children Frank and Amy. Also in the household was a boarder, William Reynolds, who was also working as a grocer's van man. In 1911 Frank snr., occupation butcher, was a patient at the City Lunatic Asylum, Mapperley Hospital, Nottingham. Elizabeth was living at 7 Radcliffe Terrace, Radcliffe Street, Meadows, and described as the head of household; she was working as a dairy woman 'on her own account'. In the home on the night of the census were their four children: Frank an office work student (cotton doubling), Amy occupation blouse tucking for a blouse manufacturer, Frances and Walter. Elizabeth was still living at the same address when Frank died in 1917 and this was also the address given on the later CWGC record. However, by 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, Elizabeth was living with her married son Walter and his wife Ethel on Surgeys Lane, Arnold, Nottingham. Elizabeth died at her son's home in 1950.
Lance Corporal Frank Garrick Eite served with the 28th Lines of Communication Company, Army Service Corps (later the Royal Army Service Corps). 'The ASC was organised into units known as Companies, each fulfilling a specific role. In most cases the Company also had a sub-title name describing its role. Some of the Companies were under orders of the Divisions of the army; the rest were under direct orders of the higher formations of the Corps, Army or General Headquarters of the army in each theatre of war. They were known as part of the Lines of Communication. Many men of the ASC were not, however, with ASC Companies, for many were attached to other types of unit in the army – for example, as vehicle drivers.' (www.longlongtrail.co.uk) Frank Garrick Eite died of heart failure in Salonika on 9 May 1917 and is buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece (grave ref. 1018). CWGC - History of the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (extract): The Cemetery about 2km from the city of Thessaloniki. 'At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister, M.Eleftherios Venizelos, Salonika (now Thessaloniki) was occupied by three French Divisions and the 10th (Irish) Division from Gallipoli in October 1915. Other French and Commonwealth forces landed during the year and in the summer of 1916, they were joined by Russian and Italian troops. In August 1916, a Greek revolution broke out at Salonika, with the result that the Greek national army came into the war on the Allied side. The town was the base of the British Salonika Force and it contained, from time to time, eighteen general and stationary hospitals. Three of these hospitals were Canadian, although there were no other Canadian units in the force. The earliest Commonwealth burials took place in the local Protestant and Roman Catholic cemeteries. Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (formerly known as the Anglo-French Military Cemetery) was begun in November 1915 and Commonwealth, French, Serbian, Italian and Russian sections were formed. The Commonwealth section remained in use until October 1918, although from the beginning of 1917, burials were also made in Mikra British Cemetery. After the Armistice, some graves were brought in from other cemeteries in Macedonia, Albania and from Scala Cemetery, near Cassivita, on the island of Thasos.' (www.cwgc.org)
Personal inscription CWGC headstone: 'Thy will be done' Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Roll of Honour’, 21 May 1917: Eite. Died of heart failure, May 9th, Private Frank Garrick Eite, Army Service Corps. From his sorrowing brother Jack, Bee and the children.’’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) Registers of Soldiers' Effects: his widow Elizabeth was his legatee and four payments were made to her including one payment for £1.3s.10d in December 1917 made ‘at written request of decd’s son Frank.’ WW1 Pension Ledgers Index Cards: named his widow Elizabeth (b. 28 February 1872) and the two children who were under-age, Frances Garrick b. 1902 and Walter b. 1907. Nottingham Evening Post, 'Deaths', 5 January 1950: ‘Eite. January 3rd at 138 Surgey’s-lane Arnold, Elizabeth, aged 77, passed away. Sorrowing family. Cremation, Wilford Hill 9am Friday, January 6th’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
