Private Frank Costall

Army Number: 4774

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Radcliffe-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Ellen Costall, of Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Plumtree, Nottinghamshire. He was a Farm Hand prior to enlisting on 6th August 1914, at Nottingham. He went to France on 24th March 1915 and died, 13th May 1915, aged 22, from gunshot wounds to his head at No. 1 General Hospital, Boulogne, France.

Buried: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Plot 8, Row C, Grave 30.

Private Frank Costall is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.
Normanton-on-the-Wolds War Memorial, Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Nottinghamshire
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Robert Costall, 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, also fell in the Great War.