Private Frank George Board was born in Battersea London in 1898. His family moved to Dartford Kent soon after his birth.

He joined the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1916 after enlisting in 1914 in the Boy's Territorials. Frank was sent to France on the 12th of August 1916 and joined his unit in the field on the 24th August. He was trained as a machine gunner. They entered Delville Wood on the evening of the 30th of August to reinforce the lines for the German counter attacks.

The Royal West Kent 8th Battalion diary's tells the stories of the constant shelling on the morning of the 31st and the many German counter attacks the men faced with fierce hand to hand fighting .

Frank was killed in the morning shell fire around the Strand trench area of Delville Wood. (*His Commonwealth War Graves entry lists that he was lost on the 1st September but there is a note from his captain explaining that he was lost on the 31st August. This is also documented in the battalion diary.) His body was lost and he is named on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. His name is also on the war memorial in Dartford next to the town's library.

His family entered on the 'additional info' on his death entry as "Son of Florence M. Board, of 26, Suffolk Rd., Dartford, Kent, and the late George Thomas Board" His three brothers also served in the Army and Navy.