Frank Gummer

Frank Henry Gummer

Killed in action on 15 September 1916

Service no. 2297

Private, London Regiment, 24th Battalion

Born in Clapham; enlisted in Kennington

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Frank Gummer was a 16-year-old draper's boy living at 9 Prescott Place, Clapham, where he shared 4 rooms with his parents, siblings and grandfather. His father, Frederick Gummer, 39, was a house painter, born in Southville (off Wandsworth Road); his mother Elizabeth Gummer, 37, was also born in Southville. Their six children were

Frederick Gummer, 18, butcher's boy, born in Stockwell

Frank Gummer, 16, draper's boy, born in Stockwell

Walter Gummer, 13, errand boy, Stockwell

Annie Gummer, 13, born in Balham

Susan Gummer, 11, born in Clapham

Elsie Gummer, 5 months, born in Clapham

George Denyer, 85, Elizabeth's father, was born in Hampshire.