Sergeant Frank CAPON
1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers G6592
51st Battalion Rifle Brigade 60102
Frank was born in November 1892 in Wandsworth, Surrey, the son of Charles Capon, a domestic gardener, and his wife, Harriet. By 1911 he was working with his father as a gardener at the Friary Gardens in Old Windsor, Berkshire.
He then moved to Northamptonshire as he volunteered in September 1914 aged 20 and his attestation papers were signed in Northampton and his medical examination carried out at Creaton Hospital. He initially joined the Northamptonshire Regiment and was posted to France in September 1915 where he served for over a year. He was promoted to Lance Corporal in July 1915 and to Corporal in March 1916. Finally in August 1916 he was promoted to Sergeant.
He was transferred to the Training Reserve in Northampton in October 1917 but then signed up to continue for a while at the end of the war and spent time with Armies of Occupation in Benrath, Dusseldorf, serving as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant. He was finally demobilised on 31 March 1920. He was awarded the 1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Frank's name is on the Roll of Honour in Spratton Church, so it seems likely that he moved to live in Spratton after the war, as in September 1924 he married Emma May Holt of East Haddon. She died in 1971 aged 78 and Frank died in 1981 in Northampton.
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EXPLORE SECTIONS
MEN WHO SERVED
- Private Charles Herbert AUSTIN (known as Herbert)
- Corporal Frank AUSTIN
- Lance Corporal James William AUSTIN
- Private John Samuel AUSTIN
- Sergeant William Henry AUSTIN
- Sergeant Bertie Henry BALDERSON
- Corporal Frederick Charles BALDERSON MM
- Lance Corporal Robert Samuel BALDERSON
- Private George William BUCKBY (known as William)
- Private Henry Andrew BUCKBY
- Richard Henry Horne BUCKBY
- Transport Sergeant Thomas BUCKBY MM
- Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Gander BUCKBY
- William Archibald COPSON (known as Archibald)
- Sapper Ebenezer COPSON
- Private Ernest Edward COPSON
- Pioneer Henry Owman COPSON (known as Harry)
- Private James COPSON
- Private John William COPSON
- Private Joseph COPSON
- Private Arthur Sidney GOODEN (known as Sidney)
- Private Hugh Henry GOODEN
- Sergeant Joseph Eric GOODEN (known as Eric)
- Private Arthur Thomas HAYTER
- Driver Frank Leonard HAYTER
- Private Harold Herbert HAYTER
- Lance Corporal John Charles HAYTER DCM (known as Jack)
- Private Walter Ernest HAYTER
- Ordinary Seaman Arthur Charles HORNE
- Private John William HORNE (known as William)
- Lance Corporal Lewis HORNE
- Private Thomas HORNE
- Driver John Henry LEESON
- Corporal Joseph Henry LEESON (known as Harry)
- Thomas Baden Powell LEESON (known as ‘Bard’)
- Private Albert MANNING
- Corporal Amos MANNING
- Private Arthur Cecil MANNING
- Private George MANNING
- Sergeant George William MANNING
- Sapper Henry Stanley MANNING (known as Stanley)
- Private John Thomas MANNING
- Private John William MANNING
- Air Mechanic Nathaniel MANNING
- Driver/Saddler Samuel MANNING
- Gunner George Albert MARTIN
- Private Joseph MARTIN
- Private Thomas Henry MARTIN (known as Harry)
- Private Thomas Walter MARTIN (known as Walter)
- Pioneer Walter Ernest MARTIN
- Sergeant William Higgs MARTIN, DCM
- Private Arthur Walter PAGE
- Private Francis Samuel PAGE (known as Sam)
- Private Frank PAGE
- Private Stephen PAGE
- Lieutenant George REEVE MC MM
- Private Richard Henry REEVE (known as Harry)
- Private Samuel REEVE
- Private Sidney Philip REEVE
- Private Frederick Thomas RICHARDSON
- Private John William RICHARDSON
- Private Percy John Partridge RICHARDSON
- Private Abraham Bert SMITH
- Private Alfred SMITH
- Private Frank SMITH 46648
- Private John Samuel SMITH
- Private John William SMITH (6942)
- Private John William (William John) SMITH (8964)
- Private Charles Walter WADHAMS
- Private John Edward WADHAMS
- Private Thomas Edwin WADHAMS
- Private William WADHAMS