Biography of Private Frank Harmston Needham (201984)
1st battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Formerly 2nd/4th and 1st/5th Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 23rd October 1918

Soldier

  • Name: Frank Harmston Needham
  • Date of birth: 1897
  • Place of Birth: Northorpe, Lincolnshire, England
  • Date of Birth Registration: January – March 1897
  • Place of Birth Registration: Bourne, Lincolnshire, England

Father

  • Name: Francis Robert Needham
  • DOB: 10th June 1868
  • Place of Birth: Northorpe, Lincolnshire, England
  • Occupation: Woodman

Mother

  • Name: Emily Harmston
  • DOB: 1869
  • Place Of Birth: Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
  • Marriage: 1895 Bourne District

Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)

  • Frank Harmston Needham, 1897, Northorpe
  • Robert Harmston Needham, 1900, Bourne (Died 1901)
  • Adelaide Annie Needham, 1905, Bourne

Census

  • 1901: Frank is living with his parents at Northorpe, Lincolnshire.
  • 1911: Frank is living with his parents at West Field Cottage, West Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Relatives in services

  • None found

Marriage

  • No marriage for Frank has been found and because of his age we can assume that he never had the opportunity to marry.

Newspaper Mentions

  • Lincolnshire Echo Wednebsday 12th June 1918
    OFFICIAL LOCAL CASUALTIES.
    WOUNDED.
    LINCOLNS.
    Needham, 201984 Pte F H (Bourne).

Military Records

Attestation Papers

  • None found

Soldier’s Died In The Great War

  • These records show that Private Frank Harmstrong Needham, 201984, 1st Bn Lincolnshire Regiment was killed in action on 23rd October 1918 in the Western European Theatre in France and Flanders.

Pension Records

  • Available

Effects Left To

  • Father Francis R

Medals

  • The British Medal
  • The Victory Medal

Memorials

  • UK:
  • Bourne, Roll of Honour in Bourne Abbey Church
  • Bourne War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens

 

  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
  • In memory of Private F H Needham, 201984, 1st Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment who died on 23 October 1918 Age 23
  • Son Francis Robert Needham, of 40, West Fields, West Road, Bourne, Lincs.
  • Remembered with honour, Vendegies-Au-Bois British Cemetery
  • Grave A. 22.

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

Military Service Timeline

  • This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed

Sources

  • WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
  • British Newspaper Archive.
  • Fold 3
  • Find My Past
  • Genealogist
  • Forces War Records
  • British Army Service Numbers
  • War Gratuity Calculator
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
  • General Registry Office