Private Frank Kinnerley

Army Number: 25658

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Normanton, Derbyshire. Husband of Sarah Ann, of Edward Cottages, Redhill Lane, Arnold, Nottingham. He was a coal miner. He enlisted at Nottingham 14th September 1914 but was discharged, medically unfit on 16th November 1914. He re-enlisted in March 1915, went to France 14th July 1915 and was killed in action near Delville Wood on the Somme, France, 12th August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Frank Kinnerley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Arnot Hill Park War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.