Frank Brockway

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Frank Brockway was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 6 Nov 1878 and baptised at St. James Church on 1 Dec 1878 the son of Joseph Brockway and Emily Brockway (nee Hopkins).   He lived all his life apart from Military Service in Shaftesbury including 41 Andrews Yard, St. James Street, Shaftesbury.   His father had died in 1897 and his mother in 1908. He married Ellen Kate Francis at St. John's Church, Enmore Green, Shaftesbury, on 26 Apr 1914.   According to the Absent Voters List of 1918 he was serving with the Divisional Training Reserve of the Royal Marines (Royal Naval Division) as a Private (Service No. S/2697).  It is not known in which theatre of war he served in but was only awarded the British War Medal following his discharge.  The 1921 Census shows him living at 32 St. James Street, Shaftesbury, working as a Haulier on his own account. By the time of the 1939 Register he had moved to 57 St. James Street, Shaftesbury, now described as a Carting Contractor.   (One of his sons' Henry Gordon Brockway, served in WW2 with the Royal Norfolk Regiment (Service No. 5573363). He was captured in Singapore and became a prisoner of war of the Japanese from which he survived to live on until 1992.) Frank's death was recorded at the Sturminster, Dorset, Registry on 16 Apr 1957 and he was buried at St. James Church, Shaftesbury, on 20 Apr 1957 .