Pte 34368 Frank Bertram Greenway

• Age: 25
• From: Eaton, Cheshire
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 20th Btn
• D.O.W Wednesday 8th May 1918
• Commemorated at: Arneke British Cem
  Panel Ref: II.C.25

The 1901 Census finds the family living at 70 High Street, Tarpoley. His father, Samuel, is aged 36 and an Inspector of Highways born in Kingsley, Cheshire, his mother Emma J. is 36 years of age and was born in Tarporley. They have two children in the household both listed as having been born in Tarporley; Frank B. 9 and Herbert E. 7 b.Tarporley.

The 1911 Census finds Frank at 31 High Street, Nantwich, Cheshire. He is a gents shop assistant for a clothing and outfitter drapers and was living along with other shop assistants with Maud Mary Lewis who was a Business House Keeper.

The rest of the family in 1911 are living in Tarporley. Father Samuel, is now 45 and a Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector, mother Emma J. is aged 46. They advise that they have been married for 21 years and have had 4 children) , children Joseph Stanley 20 baker and confectioner, and Edmund Allen 9 at school. Also with them are Emma's parents Joseph 72 b.Cheshire and Elizabeth Hitchen 73 b.Liverpool. 

Frank married May F. Sherratt at Tarporley Methodist Chapel in 1917 and resided in West Hartlepool.

He had been apprenticed to  Messrs: Stretch & Harlock, drapers of Nantwich but previous to enlistment he had been in the employ of Messrs: Dixon and Cross, West Hartlepool.   

He enlisted in West Hartlepool and was serving in the 20^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 34368 when he died of wounds on 08^th May 1918, aged 25, during the German Spring Offensive. He died at 13^th Casualty clearing station and a nursing sister serving at the hospital where Frank was admitted wrote to his widow:

“He was suffering from very severe wounds in the head, and his case was hopeless from the first. He was unconscious most of the time, and never spoke”.  

He now rests at Arneke British Cemetery, France where his headstone bears the epitaph:

“HIS NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”

The cemetery was begun by the 13th Casualty Clearing Station which moved to Arneke from the Proven area in October 1917. It was joined by the 10th and 44th Clearing Stations in April 1918. The cemetery was used by these hospitals until the end of May, and again from July to September 1918 by the 62nd (1/2nd London) Clearing Station. In November it was used for a short time by the 4th and 10th Stationary Hospitals. A few French soldiers were buried from clearing stations in April 1918 and French units buried in Plots IV and V at the north-west end of the cemetery, mainly in May and June 1918. Arneke British Cemetery contains 435 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and five from the Second World War. There are also 126 French and five German war graves. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

Probate states that his residence was 14 & 16 Hospital Street, Nantwich and his effects were sent to Samuel Greenway, Surveyor - £156.10s.

May remarried in 1920 to Harry Barnett at St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Nantwich.

His father Samuel died 1931. 

His mother died in the September quarter of 1942, her death was registered in East Glamorgan.   

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