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Max Frank

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Weidenau, Siegen, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death: June 08, 1918 (33)
Belgium (gefallen WW I)
Place of Burial: Menen, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium
Immediate Family:

Son of Selig Frank and Fanny Frommet "Rosa" Frank
Brother of Sophie Herrmanns; Samuel Frank; Jenny Salomon (Frank); Selma Mayer; Alexander Frank and 2 others

Managed by: Thomas Föhl (c)
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About Max Frank

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72580976/max-frank

In 1914, World War I began, and Samuel Frank and his two brothers Max and Hermann volunteered for military service. Max

While some online trees have Max dying in a military hospital back in Mainz, there is a memorial at Block K, Grave 191 for him at the Menen German Military Cemetery in West Flanders, Belgium. Many German graves from 1917 and 1918 were consolidated there after the war. It's more likely that his death was reported in Mainz, the headquarters of his regiment, while he died behind the lines at a field hospital in German occupied Belgium.

12 Company, Infantry-Reserve 88

cf.: http://www.aktives-gedenkbuch.de/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/objec...

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Max Frank's Timeline

1884
November 20, 1884
Weidenau, Siegen, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
1918
June 8, 1918
Age 33
Belgium
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Grave 191, Block K German Military Cemetery, Menen, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium