SECOND LIEUTENANT FRANK POCKETT MCCORMICK
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS
9TH AUGUST 1918 AGE 28
BURIED: THIENNES BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE
Edith McCormick not only lost her husband but the inscription she chose for him indicates that he was also her dear friend. Frank Pockett McCormick came from Toxteth, Liverpool. He served originally with the 18th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, the 1st Tyneside Pioneers, a Pals battalion raised in Newcastle. After being wounded he was transferred to the 9th battalion and was serving with them when he was killed on 9 September 1918. Frank was very much a New Army officer, not by any means drawn from the old officer class, his father was a railway porter and he himself had been a shipping clerk.