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PRIVATE FRANK JAGGERS
BRITISH ARMY 5TH,14TH.15TH,17TH KINGS ROYAL RIFLES
from:could be 7, Cowbridge lane Barking
(d.survivor)
Frank joined up on 7/2/1916 and was attested under the Derby Scheme. He was in the 6th. company, 5th, battalion of the Kings Royal Rifles and came from civilian life to train at Botany Bay camp at Sheerness on sea, Kent. He left there to join the 14th and later 15th service battalion on 28/8/1916. It is thought he fought on the Western Front and may have taken part in the Battle of the Somme. He was sent back to England with shellshock about 9/5/1917 when he was with the 17th battalion and was admitted to the London General hospital, Grove Lane, Denmark Hill and later transferred to Mary West ward of Edmonton Military Hospital where he stayed for several months. He was awarded the Silver War Badge and discharged from service on 9/7/1917. After hospitalization he stayed and convalesced at a friends house in Dorking Surrey-doing a lot of fishing. He was a gentle and generous man who disliked hurting people but felt he had to join up. He was born in 1895 and died in 1949 from a heart attack.
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