11211 Pte Frank Dence, 2nd Bn, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry

11211 Pte Frank Dence of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was killed in action on this day, 27th August, in 1915; one of 175 British soldiers to die on this day.

Frank was born in Wadhurst, Sussex and gave Wadhurst as his place of residence when he enlisted in late August or early September 1914. He enlisted at Chesham in Buckinghamshire. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 25 years old and the son of Edmund and Ellen Dence of Moseham Hill, Wadhurst in Sussex.

Frank Dence's medal index card indicates that he arrives overseas in France on 27th April 1915 and he is buried in the Guards Gemetery at Windy Corner, Cuinchy; grave reference II.C.6.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission