Leatherhead War Memorials : Frank Room

Town Memorial P6.R4.C2

A.B. Frank Room
HMS Hecla

Aug 12 1920

Burial/memorial: not traced on CWGC database.

Taken Not Given, Liam Sumption, L&DLHS
Service: Frank Room was an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy.
Death certificate: Died in the Royal Naval Hospital, Yarmouth, aged 51 on 12 August 1920, of pneumonia
His address was 92 Lawrence Cottages, Barnett Wood Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.

HMS Hecla: Depot ship based at Chatham. Decommissioned 21 October 1919, re-commissioned 6 October 1921
source: at PRO file ADM53/44045 - Log of HMS Hecla

Leatherhead Parish Magazine
May 1915: advertisement from Mrs Room - Frank Room, an 'iron, metal and bottle merchant' has volunteered for the Navy for active service, HMS Dido: Mrs Room, then at Fairfield, Leatherhead, wished customers to know that the business, however, will be 'carried on as usual'. Frank Room is listed among those in H.M. Regular Forces not at present at the Front.

[HMS Hecla, destroyer depot ship (ex-"British Crown", launched 1878, 6,400 tons, 4-12 pdr guns. Originally torpedo depot ship and played important role in developing British torpedo forces). Source: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921]

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e.g. a photo of him, of his grave and of any recollections within his family

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