Frank served as a private in the Coldstream Guards in the First World War. He was wounded when going into action near Cambrai on 9 October and sent back to a hospital at the base. He returned to the firing line and was killed in action at Villiers Pol near Valenciennes in the early morning of 4th November 1918.

Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives. Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Licence.