WISE, Frank Herbert

Frank was born 1893 in Newport to JR & SK WISE who were living at 135 Hunnyhill, Newport around the time of Frank’s death.

Frank, aged 25, was Killed in Action on the 30th of October 1918 & was originally buried close to where he fell, on the north side of the main Congeliano – Sacile road. Frank’s body was later exhumed & reburied in the Tezze British Cemetery, Italy beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription, chosen by Mrs CM WISE whose address was given as c/o Garrison Stores, Hunnyhill Newport, “FATHER, NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE LUKE XXII.42.” Frank rests alongside 354 of his First World War comrades.

Frank is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.