[19211] Private in the 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He enlisted at Ongar. He was killed in action on 21 May 1916 and is buried
at Essex Farm Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium.
He was born in Chilton, Suffolk, and later lived at Stanford Rivers.
He was entitled to the 1915 Star.
In the 1911 Census, a Frank Gardiner, born in Chilton in 1878, is recorded
as living with his wife Rosa, two sons and two daughters at
Great Tressels Farm, Margaretting Tye.
His occupation was recorded as Head Horseman.
