SPANNER, Frank Edward

Frank was born on the 3rd of November 1896 in Newport the only son of Thomas Frank & Mary Ann (nee LOCKHART) SPANNER who were living at 27 Pyle Street in Newport around the time of Frank’s death. The family had previously lived at 9 Town Lane also in Newport (1901 & 1911).

Frank, aged 19, was wounded by shrapnel from a German artillery shell on the 4th of May 1916 whilst transporting ammunition. He died some three hours later in an Aid Station. Frank is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetert Extension, Somme France beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 2,770 of his First World War comrades.

Frank is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother-in-law Charles NEWMAN fell two months later.