Private Frank Bilbie

Army Number: 266411 (formerly 4659)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British War and Victory Medal

Son of James and Ellen, of  Clifton Village, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916.

Buried: Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St. Vaast, France. Plot 10, Row B, Grave 28.

Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St. Vaast, France.

Private Frank Bilbie is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Clifton, Nottingham.
Clifton Village Green War Memorial, Nottingham.
Clifton Estate War Memorial  (Clifton Library), Clifton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Corporal Frederick William Bilbie, 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.