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Name: GORRINGE, Frank Clifton MC, DFC
Birth Date: 30 Sep 1889 Meads, Eastbourne
Death Date: Jan 1936 drowned, body washed ashore at Newhaven
First Date: 1922
Profession: Planter
Area: 1922 Ballymere Estate Kitale, 1925 Hoey's Bridge
Married: 1. Alcyone Augusta Agnes Stillingfleet-Bowles b. 1898 Upton on Severn, d. 5 Mar 1972 Settle, Yorkshire, separated 1934 (prev. m. to James Benjamin E. Crosbee 1897-1972); 2. ?
Children: 1. Peter Brian (6 Feb 1927-4 Feb 2005 Eynsford, Kent) 2. Audrey Maive (Evans) (d. 21 Nov 2008 Cirencester)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, Web
War Service: Canadian Expeditionary Force
General Information:
One of the few survivors of the first gas attack of the Great War at the Second Battle of Ypres, when the 1st Canadian Division defeated the Germans at the Battle of St Julien-Kitchener's Wood.
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Frank Clifton Gorringe, Planter, PO Hoey's Bridge
From Saskatchewan
Before he enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 23 September 1914, Frank Clifton Gorringe, the son of Frank J. and Mary Gorringe, was an express clerk living in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. After transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, 2nd Lieutenant Gorringe received Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate 5035 on a Grahame-White biplane at Grahame-White School, Hendon on 29 July 1917. Posted to 70 Squadron, he scored fourteen victories flying the Sopwith Camel. Post-war, he farmed in Kenya before returning to England in September 1935. When his body washed ashore at Newhaven in January 1936, an inquest into his death ruled he was "found drowned, with no evidence to show how he got into the water."
Gazette 25 Sep 1934 Was at Kakamega and went bankrupt