Hugh Francis "Frank" Carson KSG (6 November 1926 – 22 February 2012) was a Northern Irish comedian and actor, best known on television in series such as The Comedians and Tiswas. He was a member of the entertainment charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.\n', '

One of six children of a working-class Catholic family living in the dockland district of Sailortown, Frank Carson was born at 18 Great Georges Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he attended St Patrick\'s Elementary School and worked as an electrician, and later plasterer, in the building trade. Carson\'s family were of Italian descent, with his grandmother hailing from Sicily.[citation needed] He grew up in what was then the "Little Italy" area of Belfast, and was once a choirboy at St Patrick\'s Roman Catholic church on Donegall Street.\n', '

Carson spent three years in the British Army\'s Parachute Regiment, mainly in the Middle East in the late 1940s. During his service he shot dead an armed Zionist terrorist. He himself was shot in the leg and on another occasion narrowly escaped death when a bomb went off outside a cinema. The seven RAF men he was with were all killed. He also assisted with the clear up after the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem and made 40 parachute descents.\n', '

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