Sapper 50058 Frank HACKNEY
206th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Killed in Action, Tuesday 3rd December 1918, Belgium, Age 30
Home address:
31 Plimsoll Street, Liverpool, Lancashire
Born:
1888, Stockport, Cheshire
Parents:
Mary Hackney and Francis J. Hackney
7 Newton Street, Commercial Brow, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
House Painter
Enlisted:
-
Remembered:
Soumoy Communal Cemetery, Walhain, Brabant Wallon, Belgium, grave 5.
Link to Hyde:
Not Known
Died less than a month after the Armistice, when he and five others were killed in an explosion whilst salvaging a German ammunition dump.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother:
& THE LATE FRANK HACKNEY
OF STOCKPORT
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK