Private Frank Lihou
Royal Army Medical Corps (formerly Royal Army Ordnance Corps and 2nd Battalion Royal Guernsey Light Infantry)

He enlisted in the RAOC in Dec 1915 and was discharged in March 1916, joining the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry at a later date. He was sent to France as part of RGLI reinforcement 15 that left Guernsey on 5th September 1918 and arrived at C infantry depot on 8th September 1918. Frank joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in April 1919.

*The son of Elizabeth Lihou, he was born in St Martin's, Guernsey in April 1891. A founder member of St Martin's United band later known as The Royal British Legion Southern Branch drum and fife band. He played flute and bugle.

He did go to Ypres, he told us so, and he was a crackshot and was training to be a sniper when he started to have migraines, was sent back we do not know where to and became a batman.

He returned home to Guernsey to get married 18th June 1919 to Gladys Priaulx but by the photos shown he was at 51st General Hospital at ETAPLES, France and on the back of one of the photos it shows the date of 17 July 1919 plus the hospital details.

He died in 1990.

*(information supplied by his family)

 

 

Photographs and personal information courtesy of Jenny Lenormand