WAREHAM, Frank

Lembet Road Military Cemetery, Salonika GreeceCredit: CWGC

Private
10th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Frank was born 1880 in Newport to William George & Frances Jane (nee SYMES) WAREHAM who were living in New Village in Newport around the time of Frank’s death. Previously the family had lived at 14 Melbourne Street in Newport. In 1905 at St. John’s Church in Newport, he married Alice Harriet CHEEK who remarried & became Alice CANTELO & was living at 27 Barton Road in Newport.

Frank, aged 38, Died of Wounds, in one of the many hospitals based here in Salonika, on the 4th of September 1918 & is buried in the Lembet Road Military Cemetery in Salonika, Greece beneath a Commission Headstone. Frank rests alongside 1,647 of his First World War comrades.

Frank is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.