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Personal data

• Name ROE
• Initials FEM
• First name FRANK EDWARD MERVYN
• Place of birth Salisbury
• Country Wiltshire, England
• Last residence 81 Staines-road, Twickenham
• Family Eldest son of Herbert Frank Roe, of 8, Craufurd Rise, Maidenhead and Caroline Emma.
• Education Portsmouth grammar school; Naval Cadet school 1890
• Profession Retired Lieutenant Royal Navy
• Extra info DCM for 'gallant conduct on 18th December 1914, in voluntarily going to reconnoitre the enemy's trenches and remaining out for a period of three hours in a position of danger'.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 13 October 1914
• Service number S/4954
• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 12th Bn. Rifle Brigade
• Division - Brigade 60th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 20th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Served with the Royal Navy till 1907; Queen's Medal for his services during the South African War; enlisted as a Rifleman; to France as a Corpl. November 1914; 2nd Lt. February 1915; Capt. June 1915; two times severely wounded; returned to France March 1916

Death

• Wounded 6 June, by a shell while in command of his company
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n° 10 CCS
• Date of death 7 June 1916
• Died at the age of 38
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - A - 14

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