Sergeant Frank Curry
6904 1st Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Killed in Action 1st July 1916, aged 37
Lived at 128 Healeywood Road
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France

WATCH THE PAPERS ( Burnley News - 19th August 1916 )

BURNLEY SERGEANT'S PRESENTIMENT OF DEATH

As we previously announced, the death in action of Sergeant Frank Curry, of the Royal Lancaster Regiment, on the 1st July, has been reported to his brother-in-law and sister (Mr and Mrs Middlemiss) at 128 Healey Wood Road, Burnley.
Sergeant Curry, who was 37 years of age, joined the Army at the outbreak of the Boer War, and has two medals and several bars for that war. He had been on the special reserve for about 17 years, and on the outbreak of the European War he was recalled to the colours, being for a period engaged as drill instructor at Plymouth.
Eleven months before his death he was sent out to France, and was killed in action when the big push began. In his last letter home he appeared to have a presentiment that he would not come out alive, for he wrote:
"I will write at the first opportunity. But watch the papers. Good-bye to all, I do not expect to come through this."
Unfortunately his belief proved true, for a comrade has written home that he say him lying dead between two Germans, and the War Office have sent official news. Sergeant Curry was unmarried. He came of a fighting family, his father , who was in the Royal Marines, having lost an eye in an engagement in West Africa. One brother came over from Canada, and was in the fight in the dark first days, but had to invalided home. Another brother is in the Navy.

ON WEAVERS’ LIST ( Burnley Express – 19th August 1916 )

Mrs Middlemas, of 128, Healey wood Road, Burnley, has been notified of the fact that her brother, Sergt. Frank Curry (6904), K.O. Royal Lancaster Regt., was killed in action on the 1st of July. He was a reservist, and was called up at the outbreak of war. Formerly he was a weaver, and was on the books still as a member of the Burnley Weavers’ Association. Sergt. Curry was 36 years of age.