Frank Stanley Clarke BRIDGER b1892 - WW1

[fullscott]

Mis-filed as CLARKE in the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

Frank Stanley Clarke BRIDGER, born SHOREHAM (Sussex), home address HOVE.
Mother: ELIZABETH.

Joined the London Regt (Artists Rifles) in December 1916, declared age 24y 2m. Regt No: 9814.
Other Regt Nos: 763815 (London); 108131.
Demobbed 1919

Anc****y, CLA, pages 123384 to 123393

[Lesley Robertson]

The medals index puts him in the Liverpool Regt under 108131.
In the 1911, he's living with his mother (widowed) in Hove. He d. 1984 in Kingston on Thames.
According to the 1901, Dad was Harry, aged 72, a magistrate... Elizabeth must be a second wife, Harry's first 2 children are her age.
She was Miss Hockley, mar 1890, London. The newspaper comments that it was a very quiet marriage!
Harry d. 1910.