17790 Private Frederick Sloane,

8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.

Awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 18 July 1917.

Sloane later served as a corporal in the 8th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment.

On the 1918 Absent Voters list his home address is shown as 16, Norton, Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

Sloane's Medal Index Card (MIC) shows he arrived in France on the 31 July 1915 and his entitlement to the 1914/15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. He was discharged as a "Z" Class Reservist early in 1919.