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Rank : Lieutenant

Army Number : 4854585 and 253498

Unit : 1st Bn

Biography :

Frank Harris enlisted into The Leicestershire Regiment on 26.8.1927 as Private 4854585. Served in 2nd Bn in Konigstein in Germany 9.11.1927 until 23.9.1929, and in Catterick and Londonderry from 24.9.1929 until 3.10.1932 when he left for 1st Bn in India, serving there until 18.3.1938 when he left the Army and became a policeman, rejoining the Army at the outbreak of hostilities in 1939. After service as a WO2 in 2/5th Bn in the BEF and officer training at an OCTU in Dunbar, he was commissioned into the Regiment on 28.11.1942, serving in the 8th (later renamed 1st) Bn. Was awarded the M.C. for his work as Pioneer Platoon Commander, 1st Leicesters, NW Europe, 1944-45 (L.G. 24.1.1946). He was one of the few who served with the Battalion from its landing in France until the end of the war. At the end of the war in Europe he was posted to Iserlohn in Germany where he had command over two major hospitals. On discharge from the Army in 1945 he again became a policeman, and was awarded a Long Service medal in the 1960s. In 1950, he was noted for attending the International Convention of Magicians at Harrogate, Yorkshire, where - as "the Great Sinclair" - he performed a bullet catching trick. He retired to the Orkney Islands.
He died in 1991, aged 79 years.

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Date of Birth : 22.7.1911

Place of Birth : Birmingham

Date of Death : 15.4.1991

Place of Death : Whitley Bay, N Yorks

Civil Occupation : Policeman, Magician

Period of Service : 1927-1945

Conflicts : WW2

Places Served : Germany, UK, India, France, Belgium, Holland