Died aged five years. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this little boy but, unusually, found nothing beyond what the memorial gives us.
Andrew writes: "All I managed was the registration of his death in June 1917 which we knew about anyway. This registration confirmed that he was 5 years old when he died, which would mean that his date of birth could have been anywhere between 14/6/1911 and 13/6/1912. However I could find no registration record of his birth nor of his baptism. The actual dates of birth, where known, for the other children were all obtained from the Church of England's London baptismal records as clergy by this time were now always including it in their records, whereas a few years earlier it was only an optional entry that many vicars and curates did not bother to document in their baptismal registers. These registers also showed the parents names, their abode and the fathers occupation. However, for Frank Wingfield, nothing. This could be because he was baptised outside London, or not at all, but as long as he was born in England or Wales there should have been a record of his birth."
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