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Pte. Austin Frain
British Army 16th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Dewsbury
(d.16th Aug 1918)
Austin Frain of the 16th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), died on 16th August 1918 and is buried in Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.
The following text is taken from a clipping of the local newspaper: "Two telegrams in one day brought dread news to Mrs Frain, of 8, Back New Street, Westtown, regarding the youngest of the four sons she had serving in the Forces. Austin Frain was nineteen, and according to the first of the telegrams that his mother received was `dangerously wounded last Friday'. The second telegram, arriving in the afternoon, stated that he `had died at a casualty clearing station' on 16th August 1918. He had not been in the Army a year, having donned khaki on 30th August 1917. He was an old boy of both St. Paulinus Day and Sunday Schools. Before joining up he had worked for a Wakefield-based firm of haulage contractors."
