Born: 1894, Eccleshill
Died:
Buried:
Address: 32 Mount Terrace, Eccleshill
Parents: John & Mary
Spouse: Elsie, nee Motson
Siblings: Henry
Occupation: Clerk, Bradford Dyers Association
Organisations/clubs: Eccleshill Congs Sunday School
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour:
Children:
Regiment: West Yorkshire
Frank Kendall
We first read about Frank on 13
October 1916 when the Shipley
Times & Express reported:
Pte Frank Kendall, Yorkshire Regt,
Mount Terrace, Idle, has been
wounded and is in a Northampton
war hospital.
Before enlisting he was employed
by the Bradford Dyers Association.
He was a successful student in the
textile department at the Bradford
Technical College.
His brother has been out in France
18 months with the Royal Field
Artillery. Both were scholars at the
Eccleshill Congregational Sunday
School.
A month later they reported:
Writing to a friend from a
Northampton War Hospital, Pte
Frank Kendall, who has
been at the front with the
West Yorks says: “I have
only had a short
experience at the front but
it is packed with incidents
that are not likely to be
forgotten.
“I arrived up the line to
have an early whack at
Fritz on the Somme. It
was here, during some
heavy shelling, that Fritz gave me a
slight iron tonic.
“I was jolly luck as the shell
dropped directly into the trench and
wounded five of us. I did not know
for quite some time after that I was
wounded as I was dazed
“After waiting 12 hours, the
stretcher bearers took
me out of the trench and
carried me about four
miles over moorland in
the drenching rain.
“On arriving at the first-
aid post I tasted hot tea
for the first time in four
days and after having
my wounds dressed was
sent to the base and
afterwards landed in
Blighty and am now going on
well.”
That is the last we hear of Frank
until 4 June 1920 when it is
reported: The marriage took place
on Tuesday at Salem
Congregational Church,
Manningham, of Mr Frank Kendall,
youngest son of Mr and Mrs John
Kendall of 32 Mount Terrace,
Eccleshill, to Elsie, youngest
daughter of Mr and Mrs T Motson
of 4 Grandage Terrace, Wheatley
Hill, Bradford.
The Rev W J Coates was the
officiating minister. Two cousins of
the bride were bridesmaids and
Capt Eric Mawson was best man.
The bride was given away by her
father.
After the reception at the home of
the bride’s parents, the happy pair
left for Harrogate where the
honeymoon is being spent.
The bridegroom was three years in
the army and was wounded in the
Somme battle.
