Enlisted in October 1914 and arrived in France with the 11th Reinforcement in June 1916. Served with A Company and was wounded and captured during a trench raid on the Talus in July 1916.

Many thanks to Ken Holmes for sending this picture

Full details of the Talus raid are here

It is unclear whether Franks was killed on the raid or died as a POW; however, it would appear from the “Nachlassliste’ that he was killed during the raid and his body was not recovered and buried.