Frank Herbert Hardiman

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Frank Herbert Hardiman was born in Islington, London, on 25 Apr 1891 and baptised in Lambeth, London, on 6 May 1891 the son of Elizabeth Hardiman (no father was named).   By 1901 he and his mother had moved to Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, and his mother had by then married Richard Golden and was living in Pound Street, Ebbesbourne Wake.  Frank enlisted and joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry as a Private (Service No. 2091).  He served with the 3rd and 7th Regiments before being transferred to the 11th Battalion of the Royal Worcestershire Regiment (Service No. 38372) on 19 Nov 1915.  He was in Salonika from 30 Sep 1916 for much of the time and had suffered from Malaria towards the end of his service being repatriated to the UK on 4 Dec 1918.  He was eventually discharged on 20 Apr 1919 and awarded the Victory and British War Medals.   He married Lily Rose Compton in the Wilton, Wiltshire, Registry area in 1919.  The 1921 Census shows him living at 1 The Cottages, Bower Chalke, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, working as a Groom and by the time of the 1939 Register had moved to Chalkway Head, Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire, now working as a General Farm Labourer.  His death was recorded at the Salisbury, Wiltshire, Registry in 1951.