Perspectives On The Front

Name

Frank Abram

Regimental Number

255070

Battalion

46th Battalion (Saskatchewan Regiment)

Date of Birth

20 February, 1874 (44 Years Old)

Place of Birth

Almonte, Ontario

Address at Time of Enlistment

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Circumstances of Death

Frank Abram was a farmer, living in Moose Jaw at the time he enlisted in November, 1916 having moved to Moose Jaw after applying for a land grant in Saskatchewan (NE 30-29-25-W3). He arrived in England in April 1917, and entered the segregation camp in Bramshot – the practise at the time was to segregate new arrivals for a month as a preventitive measure against the spread of influenza.

On the morning of Auguat 19th, Private Abram was with his Company in support trenches east of Foquescourt. He was billeted with some other men of the party in a cellar. At daybreak the enemy shelled the vicinity with gas shells, and everybody wore their gas masks for about an hour. On taking their masks off again, the gas had almost disappeared. The party moved into another trench where they laid down to rest. A little later on several of the men were taken sick, and attended to by the stretcher-bearer.

At about 11 a.m. Private Abrams was so sick that he was carried to the Dressing Station. He died from the effects of gas poisoning at 155 General Hospital, Boulogne, on 23-8-18.