Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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14/08/2020 Mrs S McGeown, of Loy Street, Cookstown, has received notification that her son, Frank, of the Royal Army Service Corps, was injured in an accident while despatch riding in Holland, and has been taken back to a hospital in England. Previous to joining up, this young man was employed in the Cookstown Bacon Factory.
14/08/2020
14/08/2020 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 3rd March 1945:
04/09/2019
04/09/2019 The CWGC record Driver Frank McGeown as the son of Bernard and Sarah McGeown of Cookstown.
04/09/2019 Driver Frank McGeown is commemorated on Cookstown Cenotaph.
04/09/2019 Frank McGeown is buried in the family plot at Derryloran Roman Catholic Churchyard, Chapel Hill, Cookstown,
04/09/2019 Driver Frank McGeown’s remains were returned home to Cookstown.
04/09/2019 Driver Frank McGeown was serving with the Royal Army Service Corps when died on 17th March 1945, aged 21 as a result of a road accident. While acting as a dispatch rider in England, his motorcycle collided with a lorry.
04/09/2019 Prior to active service Frank McGeown worked in Cookstown Bacon Factory.
04/09/2019 The family lived at Loy Street, Cookstown.
04/09/2019 Frank McGeown was the son of Bernard and Sarah McGeown (nee Murphy). Frank was born about 1924 in Tyrone.
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