Lance Corporal Frank Birkhamshaw

Army Number: 200645 (formerly 2677)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Breaston, Derbyshire and lived at Long Eaton, Derbyshire.  Son of Oliver and Tryphena Birkhamshaw, of 16, Salisbury Street, Long Eaton. He was a lace hand prior to enlisting at Long Eaton. He was appointed Lance Corporal, 10th April 1916, served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion, April 1916 and went to France 26th February 1917. He was killed in action, 4th April 1917, age 27, in the attack at Le Verguier, France. 

Buried : Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 4. Row A. Grave 14.

Lance Corporal Frank Birkhamshaw is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Long Eaton Town Hall War Memorial, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. 

His brother Rifleman Oliver Birkhamshaw, 18th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. also fell in the Great War.