Lance Corporal 290752 Bedfordshire Regiment 1st Bn.
Died 30/09/1918 age 31 Grave XII. D. 14. GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wills; husband of Ellen Wills, of 35, Ravenscroft Rd., Beckenham. Born at Dartford
Lance Corporal Frank Gordon Wills aged 31 of 35 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham served with the First Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment and was killed in action at Flanders on 30th September 1918. Frank was one of the many Beckenham residents who answered the call to serve their country in the battle fields of France. He was the 4th son of Mr and Mrs James Wills of 4 Moreland Road, and an old scholar of Alexandra School and Holy Trinity Sunday School. He left a widow Ellen Wills and a small child Joan, of just 18 months. Frank had sent his daughter a Christmas card with a note saying how much he missed her and requested that she be a good little girl and hoped to see her soon. As the next of kin, a grateful British Government sent his parents a Memorial Death Plaque commonly called the ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ by the troops. Frank is buried in a war grave at Grevillers British Cemetery.
