Sue McGowan
proper brummie kid
I'm trying to find out if a company of R.E's were based in the Garrison Lane area particularly in December 1915. I'm looking for a soldier, Frank Whitting, 168591, later WR200291.
I can't find a death anywhere, so it is possible he died abroard. What I did find in the British Library Newspaper Archives are these two cuttings. The first seems particularly relevant and comes from the Western Daily Press dated 6 July 1915. The second, less so, from the Gloucestershire Echo dated 22 December 1915. Where you go from here, I am not sure. You may need to sit on this until more records come online, as is happening all the time. The Sheffield address may be just somewhere he stayed on his travels - I haven't checked it on the 1911 Census - could be just a boarding house.
Maurice