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Pte. George Alfred John Flack
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Romford
(d.15th Oct 1916)
George Flack was born in Windsor Castle (where his father was a gardener). After the death of his father, the family moved to Navestock in Essex, where he became a house boy on a farm. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Romford, Essex. He was killed during the Somme offensive at the battle of Transloy, during one of the many attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt. His remains were never recovered and he is remembered with pride on the Thiepval memorial and by his descendants. His brother Harry (John) also died whilst serving in the same regiment on 5th December 1918, possibly from influenza, and is buried in Selridge British Cemetery, Montay, France.
Pte. Harry James Flack
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Romford, Essex
(d.5th December 1918)
Harry Flack was born in Windsor Castle, where his father was a gardener, and after his father's death moved to Navestock in Essex with his mother and younger brothers George and Bertie. He was employed as a butcher's boy. He followed his brother into the army. Nothing is known regarding his death (due to no paperwork having survived and nothing verbal being passed down). He died on 5th December 1918 (after the armistice) and we can only assume he either died from wounds or during the Spanish influenza epedemic. He is, we believe, buried in Selridge British Military Cemetery, Montay.
Pte. Harry Flack
British Army 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Cambridge
(d.18th Jun 1917)
Harry Flack served with the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Pte. Herbert James Flack
British Army 27th Coy. Labour Corps
from:121 Durham Rd, White Hart Lane, Tottenham
I am the grandaughter of Herbert James Flack and looking for his army record I came across this article from the New Statesman dated 29th October 1918. It was a question asked in Parliament by private notice:
Mr. Alden (by private notice) asked the Secretary of State of War whether he was aware that private H.J. Flack, 121 Durham Rd, White Hart Lane, Tottenham now attached to 27 Labour Corp, No 47695 formerly No 2242 19th Middlesex Regiment who was discharged in 1914 and joined up again on 22 April 1915 and has served in France since 1 August 1916 has lost 1 eye and that the other is very seriously affected, so he is almost blind and cannot see at night. He also has a compound fracture of the leg which unfits him for active service, that he has 7 children at home, 1 who is paralysed and whether he is aware that the man under orders to leave for France Wednesday and what action he proposes to take. Mr.Macpherson's instruction have been issued that Private Flack should not be sent overseas pending a further medical exam, which will be arranged shortly.
I lived with my grandparents as my Dad was in the 2nd World War and my Mum looked after them as Nan was frail and Gramps could not see far.
Pte. Hermon Flack
British Army 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.26th Sept 1915)
Drvr. Jonah Flack
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Â Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
Jonah Flack was 27 when he died. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Simon Flack, Mill Road, Lakenheth, Brandon, Suffolk. Jonah is commemorated on the Giavara Memorial, Italy.
Sgt. William Alfred Flack DCM & bar. CdeG.
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Cambridge
Sgt. William Alfred Flack served with the Royal Fusiliers 9th Battalion. I have D.C.M. and bar, first world war pair, French C.D.G. and GeoVI territorial medals but I can't confirm they are to same man although I am reasonably certain they are, any help would be appreciated. D.C.M. named 69450 Cpl. W.A. Flack 9/R.FUS., Pair named Pte. C.A. FLACK R.FUS., GVI territorial named 6449842 W.O. CL. 1 C.A.FLACK. The index card for pair shows gs-12932 and GS/128109 Charles A.FLACK R.FUS. DCM 69450 Cpl. W.A.FLACK 9/R.FUS., L.Gazette 16th January 1919 for both awards, from Cambridge. The French C.D.Guerre in L.Gazette 17th March 1920, 128109 Sgt. William Alfred FLACK 9th Btn. R.FUS. from Cambridge.
Thomas Flaherty
British Army Irish Guards
from:Galway City, Ireland
I would like to find the names of all the soldiers in this photograph. My Grandfather Thomas Flaherty from Galway City Ireland is third from the left in the second row.
Flamers
Royal Air Force RAF Habbaniya
I was born on RAF Habbaniya in 1953 and have memories of the base, watching British aircraft take off. My father lived and served there with the British Levies until 1958.
Sapper Edward Flanagan
British Army transf. to (291501) Labour Corps Royal Engineers
from:Latnakelly, Annayalla
(d.13th August 1918)
Sapper Flanagan was the Husband of Mary Flanagan, of Latnakelly, Annayalla.
He was 52 when he died and is buried in the south-west corner of the Annayalla (St. Michael) Catholic Churchyard. Co. Monaghan, Ireland.
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/663185/FLANAGAN,%20EDWARD
Frank Flanagan
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Coventry
(d.22nd Jul 1915)
My grandmother talked to me a lot about her much loved brother Frank Flanagan. The family moved from Dublin to Coventry in the late 19th century as watch makers. He volunteered to sign up at the start of WWI with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and died at Gallipoli in the first landing.
Lt. P. J. Flanagan
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
Pte. Robert Flanagan
British Army 30th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Belfast
(d.7th Oct 1916)
My grandfather Robert Flanagan died on the 7th of October 1916, I presume he was involved in some sort of engagement. Try as I may I can find no record of such an engagement being mentioned anywhere. He is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria. I am adding this remit, so that someone may be able to resolve this and understand what happened to him.
Editors Note: From the following CWGC text regarding the Mikra Cemetery it is possible that he may have died at sea with a lot of shipping lost in the Mediterranean near Greece. So there may not be any battle to record. However the 10th Irish Division also was stationed in Salonika (now Thessalonika and he could have been killed in action with his unit serving in that Division, or wounded and died in one of the hospitals there: Mikra British Cemetery is situated in the Municipality of Kalamaria in the city of Thessaloniki just off Konstantinou Karamanlis Street between the army camp of Ntalipi (pronounced Dalipi) and the Kalamaria Greek Communal Cemetery. At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister, M.Venizelos, Salonika (now Thessalonika) was occupied by three French Divisions and the 10th (Irish) Division from Gallipoli in October 1915. Other French and Commonwealth forces landed during the year and in the summer of 1916, they were joined by Russian and Italian troops. In August 1916, a Greek revolution broke out at Salonika, with the result that the Greek national army came into the war on the Allied side. The town was the base of the British Salonika Force and it contained, from time to time, eighteen general and stationary hospitals. Three of these hospitals were Canadian, although there were no other Canadian units in the force.
Pte. Thomas Flanagan
British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Oldham
Thomas Flanagan was shot during the Battle of Oppy Wood in May 1917, he was picked up by the Canadian field ambulance a day later, he spent months recovering in Alder Hey hospital before being reassigned to the border regiment. He had bad lungs after being gassed earlier in the war and still suffered from physical effects from the gunshot wound he sustained in 1917, he was found unfit for military service and sent back to Oldham.
In 1921 he committed suicide by kneeling in the road and refusing to move, he was struck by a motorcar, suffered a fractured skull and died in hospital later that night, leaving behind a wife and 4 children.
Pte. Richard Flanaghan
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
from:Jarrow
(d.30th Sep 1918)
Richard Flanaghan was born and lived in Jarrow, the Son of Patrick Flanagan of Jarrow. On the 1911 census, Richard Flanaghan age 20 General Labourer at Chemical Works is with his father Patrick Flanaghan at 54 Old Church, Jarrow.
Richard enlisted at Newcastle and served with the 2nd/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). He died aged 27 on the 30th September 1918. He is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow and is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery.
Gnr. John William Flanders
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:17 Kilwick St, West Hartlepool, Durham
John Flanders, known as Will was my Grandfather, and told stories of him being wounded in the trenches when a German shrapnel shell landed in their gun pit. Three of his mates where killed and two wounded. He was in such a bad state that he was moved to be buried, but when two men from the burial detail picked him up to throw him into the pit, he groaned, so they got him to the hospital tent and the rest is history. He was then in hospitals at Swanage and Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital, Harrogate near Leeds.
The two men who saved him used to visit him after the war and up to about the 1950s: he outlived them both. He came home and was a soft furnishing buyer for Hill Carters department store in West Hartlepool then in WW2 he worked as a wage clerk in I C I Billingham until he retired in the 1950s. He married Violet Ann Symons and had two daughters, Clara Grace and Winifred Patrica. I was recently lent some old photos to scan into my computer from a cousin and found a newspaper article about his time at Beaulieu hospital, and a photo of him with others and nurses on a post card.
The newspaper clipping reads, Gunner Flanders of the Light Field Artillery who has been out in Flanders, is in the Beaulieu Hosital recovering from the effects of twenty wounds. They had been subjected to a heavy bombardment by the German artillery. This went on for two hours, when a shrapnel shell burst near to Flanders and others. The shell practically fell at their feet. Three were killed and two wounded, Flanders got twenty pieces of shell in various parts of his body. Several of these have been taken out, other pieces have worked out, whilst he still has small pieces remaining. He is getting on nicely.
Pte. Thomas Flannaghan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Southwick
Thomas Flannaghan was wounded in 1916 and 1918
Pte. Patrick Flannigan
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
(d.25th September 1916)
Patrick Flannigan originally joined the 1st Scottish Rifles in 1915. He was wounded and hospitalised in 1915. Both he and other soldiers from 1st Scottish Rifles seem to have been transferred to the 1st battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in 1916. Patrick died in action on the Somme in September 1916. His brother Patrick died in the same month in the following year.
Cpl. Alf. Flatt
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Seaham
(d.1916)
Alf Flatt is buried at Divion
L/Cpl. George Henry Flatt
British Army 10th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Colchester
(d.23rd August 1918)
George Flatt served with 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment.
Sgt. Richard Carter Flattely
British Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Stockton-on-Tees
(d.28th June 1917)
We don't know very much about Richard Flattely, but have been researching for my daughter's history project.
Born in 1888, formerly a general labourer, he joined the the Durham Light Infantry in 1914. He died of wounds on 28th June 1917 aged 28 and is laid to rest in Etaples, Flanders, France.
CH. STO. John Flavin
Royal Navy H.M.S. "Seal."
(d.16th April 1916)
Chief Stoker Flavin is buried South of the East end of the ruins in the Upper Aghada Cemetery, Aghada, Co. Cork, Ireland
Clifford Century Fleet
Royal Flying Corps
from:Oldham
Clifford Fleet was born on 1 January 1900 and enlisted in the RFC. He kept shorthand records of his war service, including service in Archangel, Russia, where he may have been stationed as late as 1919/1920. He received a British Service Medal and also had (now in my possession) an AIF Victory boot (miniature, leather).
Pte. Cyril Robert Fleetwood
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Barnsley
(d.30th September 1918)
On the 4th August 1914 Cyril Fleetwood joined the 7th (Extra Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Initially stationed at Finsbury, London and then moved to Falmouth, Cornwall. On 24th of July 1916 they mobilized for war and landed at Havre, where he joined the 190th Brigade of the 63rd Division and remained on the Western Front for the remainder of the war engaged in various actions including:-
- 1916:- The Battle of the Ancre.
- 1917:- The Operations on the Ancre, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, the Arras Offensive, The Battle of Arleux, The Second Battle of Passchendaele, the Third Battles of Ypres, The action of Welsh Ridge and the Cambrai operations.
- 1918:- The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Albert, the Second Battles of the Somme, The Battle of Drocourt-Queant, the Second Battle of Arras, The Battle of the Canal du Nord, The Battle of Cambrai, the Final Advance in Picardy.
Grand Uncle Cyril was killed on Monday 30th of September 1918 during the final advance in Picardy. At 19 years old and having fought in countless battles I can think of no sadder tale than his death weeks before the war ended on 11th of November 1918 in Belgium, Harveng south of Mons.
Rflmn. Frank Fleetwood
British Army 8th (Post Office Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Grenoside, Sheffield
(d.26th Aug 1916)
Pte. John Fleetwood
British Army 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Liverpool
(d.24th April 1916)
Rflmn. Jack Fleishman
British Army 10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
My grandad Jack Fleishman always refused to talk to us about his experiences during the First Word War. We know something very harrowing took place, my mother was never told.
L/Cpl. Charles Frederick Fleming
British Army 12th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Notting Hill, Middlesex
(d.26th Aug 1916)
I discovered the details of this gentleman when researching the family tree of my son in law. Charles Fleming was his Great Great Grandfather. I have yet to find anything more on this chap but I am astounded at the bravery of a 67 year old man fighting for his family and country.
Sjt. G. Fleming
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. George Fleming
British Army 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Melrose, Roxburghshire
(d.25th Sep 1915)
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