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Pte. Frank Sweeney
British Army 26th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.1st Oct 1916)
Frank Sweeney died aged 32. Born in Jarrow in 1884, he was the son of Edward and Annie Sweeney (nee Kelly). In the 1911 Census Francis Sweeney, age 26, a Boiler Maker's Labourer in the shipyards, is recorded as boarding with the Bell family at 3, Queens Road, Jarrow-on-Tyne. He enlisted in Newcastle
Frank is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.