Frank REID Private 3476 & 250401, 1 st /6 th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Died 24 th February 1917. In 1858 James Reid was born in Ballylinnie, Antrim, Ireland. At some time in the 1880s he left the family home in the search for employment, eventually coming to Crook. He found work as a coke oven cooler. He married early in 1888, where he and his wife set up home in Grey Street, Crook, where they brought up seven children. At the time of the 1911 Census Frank was 15, and by the time war broke out in 1914 he had married, and he and his wife were living in Stable Row, Loves Beechburn (Greenhead). Frank enlisted in the 1 st /6 th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Little is known of his army career, but he was killed in action in France on the 24 th February 1917. He was eventually buried at the Assevillers New British Cemetery, a cemetery created after the Armistice, where bodies were brought from other smaller cemeteries and reinterred.

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