Private Frank Gotthardt
240157 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Died 21st November 1918 of influenza following wounds, aged 22
Lived at 63 Villiers Street
Buried in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, France - X.A.2B.
Burnley Express 13th June 1917 - 30th November 1918

WIFE CALLED TO FRANCE
IN TIME TO SEE HER HUSBAND DIE
(Burnley Express 30th November 1918)

A very sad case of one of the latest casualties of the war is that of Pte. Frank Gotthardt 240157 of the 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment, who died last Thursday in No.3 General Hospital France, from pneumonia following wounds received in action on November 6. His wife, who lives at 63, Villiers-street, Burnley, was called to see him in hospital and given facilities for the passage, along with his mother of 13 Jackson-street, Burnley, but they were only just in time to see him pass away, and he was buried at Monthoum on Saturday. The bereaved ladies arrived home on Monday.
Pte. F. Gotthardt was in the territorials when war broke out, and went out with the division to Egypt, in September 1914, and fought through the Dardanelles campaign. He went to France in March 1917 and escaped throughout until five days before hostilities ceased.he was shot through the groin, and the same bullet, after passing through his body, wounded a man behind in the knee. Unfortunately pneumonia supervened with fatal results.
Before joining the Territorials Pte. Gotthardt was a tape labourer for the Wood Top manufacturing Co. He was 22 years of age, and an only son, and his name is on the roll of honour of Sandygate and Hargher Clough Schools.