[200306] Private in the 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He enlisted at Ongar. He was killed on 27 March 1917, aged 19.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
Jerusalem Memorial.
He was the brother of Ernest Staines and was born about 1898 in Ongar.
Chelmsford Chronicle, 27 April 1917
Pt. Frank Staines, Essex Regt., eldest son of…
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The Jerusalem Memorial stands in Jerusalem War Cemetery, 4.5 kilometres north of the walled city and is
situated on the neck of land at the north end of the Mount of Olives, to the west of Mount Scopus. There are
now 2,514 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery, 100 of them unidentified.
Within the cemetery stands the JERUSALEM MEMORIAL, commemorating 3,300 Commonwealth servicemen
who died during the First World War in operations in Egypt or Palestine and who have no known grave.
The memorial was designed by Sir John Burnet, with sculpture by Gilbert Bayes. In addition, the mosaic in the
Memorial Chapel was designed by Robert Anning Bell. The Memorial was unveiled by Lord Allenby and Sir
James Parr on 7 May 1927.
