10357 Pte Frank E Fish, 1st Bn, Coldstream Gds

10357 Private Frank Ernest Fish of the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards was killed in action on the 29th October 1914. He was 20 years old, the son of Frank Fish of 16, Mantle Road, Leicester. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

Frank was one of 139 Coldstream Guardsmen to die on this day; a day which saw 691 British army officers and men lay down their lives for King and Country. A total of 240 of these men were serving with Guards regiments at the time of their death.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission