(1)

Frank and Ethel's

Great War

Postcard Album.

(2) Ethel & Franks Collection of Postcards

Frank Ward and Ethel Southall personal collection of in excess

of three hundred postcards over a period between 1912 and 1939.

The majority of these cards were collected from friends and family

during the period of the Great War when Frank was serving as a

stretcher bearer on the Western Front and Ethel was looking after her

father's Picture Framing Shop in Willenhall (Staffs).

This Album of postcards is presented on a web site in memory of my

Mother and Father, Ethel and Frank Ward to their Service in the

Great War.

Ken Ward

(3) Little Frank.

Written briefly on the back of the photo '' This is little Frank''

(4) 1912

1912
Frank and Ethel
He is wearing his new T.A. uniform.

My father, Frank Ward was born on the 27th Oct 1892, at 53 Wood Street, Willenhall, to Sarah and William Ward who was a rim locksmith by profession. Frank had two sisters and four brothers. Frank attended the"St Giles Church School" . He left school aged 14 and was employed by "Beddow & Sturmey" lockmakers, working on the machinery. The Ward family worshiped at "St Giles Church" Willenhall. Two of his brothers (Harry & Fred) became bell-ringers during the period leading up to the outbreak of World War 1. The Rev.Arthur Pratt was vicar of St Giles at this time and would have known Frank well. Another family also worshiped at St Giles were the Southalls. John Caleb Southall was a night latch maker and lived with his wife Sarah and daughters, Ethel and Edith and sons, Jack and Sydney. John Caleb had lived as a child at 50 Wood Street (very close to the Ward family). Ethel was born on 2nd Oct. 1894 at 21 Lichfield Street, Willenhall. I am most grateful to my niece, Kathryn and her husband Gerald Lambert for their help with preparing this web site. Ken Ward. ( Franks son)

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(6) The Ward Family.

The Ward Family.

William E Ward = Sarah Haddon

b1857 b1861 m 1883

Children

(1) Florence Ward

b1885 (spinster)

(2) William Ward = Gertrude Jenkins

b1886 b1889

(3) Harry Ward = Bertina Hoggins

b1888 b1890

(4) Ada Ward = Harry Pearson

b1889

(5) Frank Ward

1890-1892

(6) Frank Ward = Ethel Ward

b1892- 1975 b1894-1976

(7) Frederick Ward

b1895

(8) Albert Ward = Alice Best

b1898

(7) The Southall Fanily

Southall Family

Caleb Southall = Sarah Bradley

b1873 b1862

Children

(1) Ethel Southall 1894 -1976

(2) Edith Southall 1895

(3) Jack Southall 1903

(4) Sidney Southall 1910