Name: RACHEIL, FRANK ALBERT Initials: F A Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 3rd Bn. Age: 18 Date of Death: 24/05/1915 Service No: 2237 Additional information: Son of John and Ann Racheil, of 23, Holme Rd., East Ham, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 6 and 8. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Name: RACHEIL, ARTHUR ERNEST Initials: A E Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 3rd Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 24/05/1915 Service No: 2314 Additional information: Son of John and Ann Racheil, of 23, Holme Rd., East Ham, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 6 and 8. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Name: RACHEIL, FREDERICK GEORGE Initials: F G Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers Unit Text: 3rd Bn. Age: 24 Date of Death: 24/05/1915 Service No: 2269 Additional information: Son of John and Ann Racheil, of 23, Holme Rd., East Ham, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 6 and 8. Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
I posted this as I keep mentioning them to visitors who have not heard of them, my gt uncle is on the gate so each individual one is of course tragic but 3 brothers on the same day? The poor parents, I shall lay a cross for them on Tuesday
Yes I thought it was from your book that I first heard of them, well spotted. Have you heard about the soldier who served under the alias of Makin T ? a visitor once tried told me it was a deliberate joke.