2184 Pte Irving Frank Noakes, 1/7th Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

2184 Private Irving Frank Noakes of the 1/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died of wounds at Gallipoli on the 31st May 1917. He was born in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, and enlisted at Salford, probably on the 6th or 7th of August 1914. His medal card records his name as Frank Noakes and indicates that he arrived in the Balkans on the 5th May 1915. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as Irving Noakes and gives the additional information that he was the son of John and Eliza Noakes of Burwarton, Salop. He is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery in Turkey.

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