219447 Pte. Francis Flynn British Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry from:32 Glasgow Street, Thornaby on Tees (d.26th Aug 1918) My uncle Frank Flynn was the second youngest of nine children of John Flynn and Mary nee Foy. John Flynn had come over from County Leitrim, Ireland in the 1860s or 1870s.
Frank enlisted in the 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry on 16th December 1914 at Stockton-On-Tees aged 19 years 10 months, measuring 5 feet 3 3/4 tall, service number 3230, which later changed to 45577. In July 1916 he was posted to 15th DLI in France. He was wounded in September 1916 and shipped back to England and spent a month in hospital. Returning to France in August 1917 he was killed in action on 26th August 1918, He is Remembered at Warlencourt British cemetery.
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