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253521 Pte. George Noah Flippance British Army A Coy, 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment from:Collingbourne Ducis (d.26th Oct 1914) George Flippance was born in 1886 and was from Collingbourne, Wiltshire. Before the outbreak he married Lillian Kent in June 1914 As a member of the Regular Army at the outbreak of war he was in A Company, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. His unit was one of the first to travel to France with the 80,000 strong British Expeditionary Force arriving in early August. As one of the first British units to fight in France he was involved in the Battle of Mons and then part of what became know as the Great Retreat where by the BEF delayed the advance of the German Forces despite being outnumbered 3-1 and so helped contribute to the halting of the German advance at the subsequent Battle of the Marne. In October 1914 he was involved in the first Battle of Ypres here he was killed on the 26th of October just 3 days after the birth of his son, Joshua Noah Flippance. George is among the many thousand of soldiers without a known grave but is commemorated at the Le Touret Memorial in France and on the War Memorial in his home village of Collingbourne, Wiltshire. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star, 1914-1918 War Medal and the Victory Medal. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please put first part of your email, (before the @ sign) in the first box, and the second part in the second box. Do not include @, it is automatic. Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**