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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Rann brothers -

Unknown person Name : Rann brothers - Frank and Alfred

Sons of : Frank Rann and Fanny Emily Rann (née Jupe) of The Post Office, Whippingham.

Frank Rann : Born : 27 July 1905, Newport.

Married : 1935 Jessie Allam, at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight; 2 children - James (born 1936), Janet (born 1937).

Alfred Rann : Born : 1909, Newport.

Married : 1929 Alma Eleanor Maude Dyer, at the Register Office, Newport, Isle of Wight; son Alfred Edward (born 1929).
  Census information :

1911 : Frank and Fanny Rann, with their 3 eldest children, including Frank aged 5 and Alfred aged 2, are at Chillerton. Frank Rann is a General and Shoeing Smith.

  Electoral roll information :

1922 : Frank and Fanny Emily Rann are listed at The Post Office, Whippingham.
  Service information :

CPO P/J100664 Frank Rann, Royal Navy. H.M.S. Royal Oak.
  Casualty Details :

Died : 14 October 1939, aged 34.

Commemorated at : Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

CWGC Record
  Service information :

Corporal 48403 Alfred Rann, 214 Army Field Coy., Royal Engineers.
  Casualty Details :

Died : 23 April 1943, aged 34.

CWGC Record

Buried at : Oued Zarga War Cemetery, Tunisia.
  Commemorated on these Memorials :

Both brothers :

Whippingham War Memorial
Whippingham St Mildred's Church Roll of Honour WW II

Frank RANN is also commemorated on the HMS Excellent Portsmouth Gunnery Instructors World War II Memorial

Alfred Rann is also commemorated on these Memorials :

Binstead War Memorial
Ryde Borough War Memorial WW II
  Documents and Newspaper cuttings :

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, June 16, 1917 Page 5

THE ISLAND AND THE WAR
THE WEEK'S CASUALTIES
SICK
Farrier-Cpl. F. Rann A.S.C. (Gatcombe)

Page 8

GATCOMBE
Mrs. Rann, of Chillerton, has been informed that her husband, Farrier-Corpl. Frank Rann, A.S.C., was admitted to hospital on June 4th, suffering from trench fever. He was the local blacksmith at Gatcombe before joining up in April 1915, and has been on the Western front for two years.

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, October 21, 1939 Page 1

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
MR.AND MRS. F. RANN AND MRS. RANN, JUN., thank all friends for letters of sympathy received on the great loss of a good son and husband, lost on the Royal Oak. Please accept this the only intimation.


ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, October 21, 1939

LOSS OF THE BATTLESHIP ROYAL OAK.

15 ISLANDERS DROWNED, 8 SAVED.

The sinking of the battleship Royal Oak by a German submarine was announced by the Admiralty on Saturday, and on Tuesday it was revealed in the House of Commons that she was sunk while at anchor at Scapa Flow. The Royal Oak, which was commissioned at Portsmouth in June, and was a Great War ship which fought at Jutland, had a complement of about 1200, of whom only 414 were saved. Among those who were missing and have since been reported as presumed drowned, were, as far as we have been able to ascertain, 15 gallant Island men, and eight others were among those saved.
On behalf of their fellow Islanders, we tender to the bereaved relatives profound sympathy in having to bear this, the heaviest blow which has yet fallen in Island homes as the result of the war. The following are brief particulars and photos of Island men who have made the great sacrifice, and of those who survived the disaster:


[...]

MISSING, PRESUMED DROWNED.
Chief Petty Officer Frank Rann, of 8 Coastguard Cottages, Langstone Harbour, Portsmouth, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Rann, of Whippingham Post office. Rann, who was 34, leaves a wife, formerly Miss Jessie Allum, of Whippingham, and two children. He is the eldest of 12 children, and joined the Navy in 1922. Of Mr. and Mrs. Rann's nine sons, five are serving in the Services, and another will be joining up shortly. On Monday Rann's parents received a letter from him saying what a peaceful war this was.


ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, May 15, 1943 Page 5

THE ISLAND AND THE WAR.
ISLAND ROLL OF HONOUR.
KILLED
Corp. Alfred Rann, of Lemon Cottages, Binstead, while serving in North Africa with the Royal Engineers. Corpl. Rann, who was 34, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Rann, of the Whippingham Post-office, who lost another son in the sinking of the Royal Oak. They have five other sons in the Services, four in the Royal Navy and one in Tunisia. Corpl. Rann was in the evacuation from Dunkirk, and had been in North Africa about six months. Prior to joining up he was employed by the Ryde Town Council. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss M. Dyer, and a son.
  Further information :

Their father, Frank RANN, is commemorated on the Roll of Honour at Gatcombe Church, having served with the Army Service Corps in the First World War.

Frank and Alfred RANN are the first cousins once removed of Broadley VINE, and Alice Maud VINE, wife of Charles Thomas FEAVER; and 2nd cousin of Arthur BURCHETT, Percy Sidney GATRELL, Thomas GAWN, Arthur James WOODFORD (married to 2nd cousin Lydia GAWN) and Charley Ellman BLAKE (married to 2nd cousin Edith GAWN) who all have biography pages.

The following, who also have biography pages, are distantly related to Frank RANN - Henry Michael O'HARE (3rd cousin), George Frederick HOLBROOK (3rd cousin), James BUSH (2nd cousin once removed), Robert DALE (married to 4th cousin Evelyn Laura WRAY), Kenneth Woodnutt DUDLEY (3rd cousin once removed), Valerie Lilian DUDLEY (3rd cousin twice removed), William George Morris DUNSTAN (married to 3rd cousin Elsie Gertrude BULL), William John NEWBERY (2nd cousin once removed), Oliver Edwin TUCKER (4th cousin), William George TUCKER (4th cousin), Edward Lewis WEEKS (3rd cousin once removed), Ewart George WILLSTEED (4th cousin), Bertie Howard WRAY (4th cousin).

Hyperlinks for these are not given - if you wish to see their biography pages, go to People Index and link from there.
  Links :

H.M.S. Royal Oak sinking

H.M.S. Royal Oak :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08
http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/68.html

U-47

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-47_(1938)
http://uboat.net/boats/u47.htm
http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/person/8767.html


Dunkirk Evacuation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation
  Acknowledgments :

Janet Griffin for Newspaper research, and for specifying the relationships given above in 'Further Information'
  Page status :
Page last updated : 9 April 2015 (added newspaper report for Frank Rann snr)



 
 

 
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