![Private Frank Lihou](pix/lihou-f-etaples3.jpg)
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