Second Lieutenant Frank Burfield Gamble

Army Number: n/a

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

Born and lived in Leicester. Son of Frank William and Sarah Ann Gamble, of 2, Ashleigh Road, Leicester. He attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys from 1898 to 1904. He enlisted Inns of Court 1915 and commissioned Second Lieutenant 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 17th September 1915 and joined the Battalion at Château Mussot, France 15th January 1916 from England. He was Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 29, during the attack on Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Extract from 1/7th Battalion War Diary, 12th March 1917 – “The bodies of 2nd Lieutenant W.E. Flint and 2nd Lieutenant Gamble who were killed in action on July 1st were brought in from the wire in front of Gommecourt and buried in Fonquevillers Cemetery by the Reverend W.A. Uthwaite, Chaplain to the Battalion.”   

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 3. Row E. Grave 4.

Second Lieutenant Gamble is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Martyrs Church War Memorial, Leicester.
Wyggeston Boys Grammar School War Memorial, Leicester.