SOLDIERS IN OTHER REGIMENTS

Private Frank Quinn, 5499

Private Frank Quinn, 5499
12th Battalion.Manchester Regiment

Newspaper obituary:

"Mrs Quinn, of Wallshaw Street, Oldham, has received news that her husband,, Manchester regiment, has been killed in action. A letter to Mrs Quinn from Private J. Stopford (4848) and Private R. Perkins (17744), Border regiment, dated July 12, says:

Dear Mrs Quinn, - We very much regret to inform you of the death of Private F Quinn, who was killed in action on the 6th of July, as near as we can say. When we found him he was just in front of the support trenches, at the foot of a hedge, where he had been hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel. His wounds had been dressed, and he had passed away through loss of blood, for he was lying in a pool of blood. I can assure you he died peacefully, for he had a smile on his face. We are sorry we could not inform you earlier, as we have only just come out of action ourselves. I also regret not being able to get any correspondence off him. We were just advancing ourselves when we came across him, and knowing his features we stopped to identify him. We are both Manchester lads.

Private Quinn enlisted soon after the commencement of the war, and was over on leave in January last, having been out at the front many months. Before the war he was employed at Messrs Platt Bros and Company's Old Works. He was 34 years of age."

 

Medal Index Card

He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

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