252566 Pte. Frank Ernest Hoult British Army 6th Battalion London Regiment from:Wandsworth My Grandfather, Frank Hoult, enlisted between the 6th September and 7th October 1914 with the 6th Battalion, City of London Rifles, after being given a White Feather a few days before.
He proceeded to France on 17th of March 1915 he took part in most key battles, surviving Loos, but was stranded in No Mans Land for 4 days during the regiments many attacks at The Somme in late 1916, with a shrapnel wound in his ankle. So hungry he felt like eating the mud he was thankfully rescued by colleagues to live to tell the tale.
He was transferred on 29th November 1917 to the Army Service Corps which is why after the War he became a Bus driver, operating out of the Dagenham, Becontree Garages until his retirement in 1958.
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