Lebish, FR
(1897 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
15th June 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1910 - 1915
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
16 Court [Elmcourt] Road, West Norwood
REGIMENT
Royal Field Artillery
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
24th July 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
20
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Poperinghe
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. XIV A 1
2nd Lieutenant Frank Roland Lebish
Frank was born on June 15th 1897, the youngest of four children of silk merchant George Lebish and his wife, Georgina. He came to the College shortly after his thirteenth birthday, in the summer of 1910, nearly a decade after his elder brother, also named George, had left Dulwich. Frank would go on to be a pupil for the next five years, during which time he passed an Intermediate B.A. at London University despite still being at Dulwich.
After leaving in the summer of 1915 he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., and later went on to take a place at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Frank passed out in the summer of 1917 taking up a commission in the Royal Field Artillery on June 7th and proceeding to France with his new unit eleven days later. Weeks afterwards, on July 24th, an ammunition dump near where he was stationed at Poperinghe was hit by a shell, and as a result caught fire. Whilst attempting to extinguish the blaze Frank was seriously wounded, and died as a result of his injuries that evening in a nearby field hospital.
