Frank took over the organisation of the Bedworth Armistice Day and Service from Maurice Smart in 1986, and under his dedication and guidance Frank and the Committee made the Bedworth Armistice into one of the biggest parades of its kind in the country.
Ex Royal Marine and SBS, Frank was captured by the Japanese in 1944 whilst engaged in covert operations in Singapore Harbour and held in the infamous Changi Jail until he was liberated in 1946.
After the war Frank, a carpenter by trade, worked for the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Midland Theatre Company, the Royal Shakespeare Company and at Pinewood Studios.
He never forgot the traumas, hardship and suffering he had seen as a prisoner of war, and soon became involved in the Royal British Legion where he became a familiar sight in Bedworth collecting for the Poppy Appeal, also organising collections for the lads serving in the first Gulf War and opening a charity shop where donations were packed and despatched to the serving troops.
Frank won the Bedworth Rotary "Man of the Year" award, the Millenium Medal from Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council and the President's Award from the Royal Marine Association.
In his later years ill health forced him to give up many of his lifelong works, though the Armistice Parade and Service was always at the forefront of his thoughts. Every year, against all the odds, Frank would be there to lead the Parade, lay his wreath and remember all his comrades in arms who never returned.
Death has finally claimed this redoubtable warrior, yet his spirit will live on in the Armistice Parade and Service, though for many of us the 2011 Parade was just a little more poignant this year.

Thank you for everything Frank, you will not be forgotten.