Private 32512 Frank DAFT

1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment. Formerly, Private 10872 Leicestershire Regiment.

Killed in action in Italy, 5th October 1917 age 28.

Commemorate Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium. Panel ref: Panel 90 to 92 and 162 to 162A

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of James Daft

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Pte Daft

NNWFHS Polesworth War Memorial Page

NNWFHS Polesworth Pooley Hall Memorial Page

Tyne Cot Memorial

South Staffordshire Regiment

Other Information

Born c1887 Nuneaton

1911 Census living at 42 The Gullett, Polesworth with his Uncle and Aunt, William and Mary Ann Stonehouse. Employed at as Coal Miner

Reported as Wounded and Missing, 29th November 1917, The Midland Daily Telegraph