Francis Casinelli

Private Francis Casinelli, who served as Frank Ford, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born c. 1884, at Exeter, the son of Italian-born ice cream vendor John and his wife Sophia Casinelli, of Barnstaple.
Aged 35, Casinelli died on 24 April 1917, during the Battle of Doiran, while serving on the Salonika Front with the 10th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment. He had formerly belonged to the regiment's 8th Battalion and had first served in France from December 1915.According to Soldiers Died in the Great War, his death occurred on the 25th rather than the CWGC's 24th.
He is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Casinelli, Francis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1917 deaths
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Category:British Army
Category:British people of Italian descent
Category:Buried in Greece
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