HARLEY Frank Clifford

  • First Name(s):
    Frank 
    Clifford 
  • Surname:
    HARLEY
  • Service Number:
    403988
  • Rank:

    Trooper

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Cavalry
  • Corps:
    Royal Armoured Corps
  • Regiment:
    1st Royal Dragoons
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    2nd July 1940
  • Age At Death:
    30
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Surrey, England, Panel 1. Column 1.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of George and Emily M. Harley

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HARLEY Frank Clifford Is Named On These Memorials

Drakes Broughton St Barnabas Church

Further Information About HARLEY Frank Clifford

A letter from Trevor Morgans, vicar of Stoulton, Stoulton Vicarage, dated 29th May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives stating that Trooper Frank Harley, 1st Royal Dragoons was lost at sea on the “Arandora Star”.

The SS Arandora Star left Liverpool bound for St. John’s, Newfoundland on 1st July 1940. She was unescorted and was carrying nearly 1,200 German and Italian internees, including 86 prisoners of war, and 374 British men comprising military guards and ship’s crew.  Shortly before 7am on the morning of 2nd July off the northwest coast of Ireland, she was struck by a torpedo from a German submarine.  Thirty five minutes later the ship sank taking 800 men with her.

Frank Harley has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Brookwood Memorial.

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