was started after the terrible ghting of in April 1915. Burials continued

until the Armistice, especially in 1916 and 1917, when Advanced Dressing

Stations were placed in the dugouts and the farm.

Frank was a great loss to the battalion, with Captain John Milne, in ‘Footprints

of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment’ describing Tarr thus:

“...the most attractive personality in the battalion, young, good-looking,

full of charm, with an eye that always had a twinkle in it, a born leader,

yet the kindest person possible, a Rugger international, the idol of

the machine-gun section, which he commanded before he became

adjutant. Everybody was heartbroken, for everybody would miss him

they would not look upon his like again.”

Tarr was one of 27 England rugby players killed in the First World War. There

are memorials to him on the family headstone in Welford Road Cemetery,

at Uppingham School, University College, Oxford, the Oxford University

rugby club and the Richmond Athletic Ground.

Newspaper Reports:

Leicester Daily Post. Thursday 22nd July 1915:

LEICESTERSHIRE AND THE WAR.” – DEATH OF LIEUT. F. N. TARR. –

FAMOUS TIGER KILLED IN BELGIUM. HIT BY A SHELL

We regret to announce the death of Lieut. Frank N. Tarr, of the 1/4th

Leicester’s, who was killed in action in the neighbourhood of Ypres,

Belgium, on the 18th inst. The news reached the town indirectly on

www.voicesofwar.co.uk

Grave Registration (taken from www.cwgc.org)