Frank Edward Stubbs

{{Short description|English Victoria Cross recipient (1888–1915)}}

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{{Infobox military person

|name=Frank Edward Stubbs

| honorific_suffix = VC

|birth_date=12 March 1888

|death_date= {{Death date and age|df=yes|1915|04|25|1888|03|12}}

|birth_place= Walworth, Surrey, England

|death_place= W Beach, Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Turkey

|placeofburial=

|image= Frank Edward Stubbs VC.jpg

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|nickname=

|allegiance={{UK}}

|serviceyears=

|rank=Sergeant

|branch=23px British Army

|commands=

|unit=Lancashire Fusiliers

|battles= World War I

• Gallipoli campaign
• Landing at Cape Helles
• Landing at W Beach {{KIA}}

|awards= 30px Victoria Cross

|laterwork=

}}

Frank Edward Stubbs {{post-nominals|VC}} (12 March 1888 – 25 April 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Stubbs was 27 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War. He was killed in action on 25 April 1915 while landing on W Beach in Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

Stubbs was one of the six members of the regiment elected for the award by the survivors. These were hailed in the press as 'six VC's before breakfast', and the commander of the Allied troops at Gallipoli, General Ian Hamilton ordered that the beach be renamed 'Lancashire Landing'.{{cite web | url=http://www.1914-1918.net/lancsfus.htm | work=1914–1918 | title=Lancashire Fusiliers}}

The other five of the '6 VCs before breakfast' were awarded to Cuthbert Bromley, John Elisha Grimshaw, William Kenealy, Alfred Joseph Richards and Richard Raymond Willis.