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:

SON OF MARY
& THE LATE FRANK HACKNEY
OF STOCKPORT
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK