Carole Fife has provided the following.
Francis, known as Frank, was born in Whitby in 1884, the eldest child of William Robinson Shaw and his wife Martha (all the children have the middle name Robinson). In 1891 the family was living in Whitby and his father was a jet worker, but a few years later they moved to Bedlington.
In 1901 the family was living at Hollymount, Bedlington, and Frank was working at the pit with his father. In 1908 he married Dorothy Ann Smith and went to live in Rothesay Terrace, Bedlington Station. They had two children, Margaret and Joseph, and in 1911 Frank was working as a hewer.
He enlisted into the 19th Northumberland Fusiliers, who landed in France on 29th January 1916. Frank was one of the men remembered at a Memorial Service held by the Blyth and Wansbeck Church Union in Blyth Central Primitive Methodist church on 29th December 1917.
His brothers William Robinson Shaw and Robert Shaw also died in the Great War.
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04, in Bedlington on B15.19 and B15.20 and in the Regimental History page 218
