Frank Gordon Wagstaff
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3rd September 1913, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Trooper, 14339636
24th Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps
8th June 1944
30 years
BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
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Joan Williams
Edgar William Wagstaff
Blanche Eva (nee Bowerman)
Edgar John Wagstaff
Christine Joyce Wagstaff
13th August 1915
9th January 1885 - 26th October 1965
14th August 1884 - 16th October 1974
3rd April 1911 - 1995
24th December 1921 - 10th March 1990
Married: 1910, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Address:
Wayside, Presteigne Road, Knighton, Radnorshire
Frank Gordon Wagstaff, F.F.S.A. F.F.I.I.
F.F.S.A. = Fellow of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors.
F.F.I.I. = Fellow of Institute of Taxation
With the 8th Armoured Brigade, the 24th Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps landed on Gold Beach, in the second wave of the Operation Overlord landings, supporting the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division. The regiment landed on 7 June 1944 (D-Day +1). Equipped with Sherman tanks, shortly after landing the regiment was involved in the fighting around Putot-en-Bessin and Villers Bocage.
Frank was originally buried in Le Mesnil Patry in the Calvados area in the Normandy region in northwestern France. His body was exhumed and reburied in the Bayeux War Cemetery on 23rd March 1945.
Probate:
WAGSTAFF Frank Gordon of Wayside, Presteigne-road Knighton Radnorshire died 8 June 1944 on war service.
Probate Llandudno 10 October to Richard Ashford Davies Bank Manager
The inscription on Frank's headstone reads:-
At the going down
Of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember him