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Pte. Samuel Edwards Fletcher
British Army 4th Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Burnley
(d.17th April 1918)
Samuel Fletcher served in the Duke of Lancasters Imperial Yeomanry and gained the rank of Colour Seargent. He earned the Queen Victoria Boer War Medal with 4 bars.
Samuel enlisted in the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Guards in 1916 and served with 4th Company. He was reported missing April 13th 1918 and was reported to have died April 17th 1918 while a captive of the Germans. He died of a spinal injury and is buried in the Tourcoing Military Cemetery.
Samuel E. Fletcher
British Army 4th Btn. Grenadier Guards
(d.17th Apr 1918)
My Great Grandfather Samuel E Fletcher serving with the 4th Grenadier Guards, 16th Platoon was captured near La Couronne on the 14th of April during the Battle of Hazebrouk. He later died on the 17th of his wounds to the spine.
Pte. Walter Fletcher
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.26th Apr 1915)
Pte. William Fletcher
British Army 21st Btn. A Coy. Durham Light Infantry
from:The Green, Billingham, Co Durham
William Fletcher was a grocer from Billingham, he enlisted in Middlesbrough aged 21, in June 1915. He served with A Company, 21st Battalion DLI and went to France on the 26th Of April 1916, suffering a gunshot wound to his face in June. He returned to England for treatment. In Feburary 1917 he transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers and then to 412 Coy. Labour Corps.
Pte. William Aubrey Fletcher
British Army Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.7th Mar 1917 )
William Fletcher served at the Lincolnshire Regiment Depot.
Gnr William Anderson Fletcher
British Army 145th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hazel Grove
Lt. Irving Russell Flett
Australian Imperial Force 23rd Battalion
from:Australia
(d.28th Jul 1916)
Irving Russell Flett was born at Albert Park, Victoria on 23rd of September 1887. A salesman, Flett lived in Brighton, Victoria with his parents and a brother, Walter. Flett was appointed as second lieutenant in the newly raised 23rd Battalion on 24th of March 1915. Flett departed Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on 26th of August 1915, just before the 23rd Battalion landed at Gallipoli on the 4th of September 1915. The battalion were soon manning the difficult and dangerous trenches at Lone Pine which they occupied alternately with the 24th Battalion, until the evacuation in December 1915.
Following the evacuation, Flett was sent, via Egypt, to France with the 23rd Battalion. The battalion experienced a relatively gentle introduction to the Western Front via the Armentières sector in northern France in April 1916. However, the battalion was to experience substantial casualties during the horrific battles of Pozières and Mouquet Farm in July. Flett was amongst these casualties and was killed in action on 28 July 1916 at Pozières, France, aged 29. Irving Flett was buried on the battlefield near the ruins of Pozières and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Pte. John Flett
British Army 7th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Aberdeen
(d.13th Nov 1916)
John Flett of the 7th Gordon Highlanders is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
His younger brother William served with RNVR in Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division both died on the same day.
Pte. William George Flett
British Army Gordon Highlanders
William Flett was my father. Born 1897 in Portknockie, Scotland. I still have his kilt, Glen Garry, medals etc. He fought at Vimy Ridge in France. He was late in getting married and having children. Like many veterans he did not wish to discuss the war.
Able Sea. William Flett
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve 5th Nelson Battalion
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Cpl. William George Flewellen
British Army 478th (South Midland) Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Bristol
(d.3rd Dec 1917)
Sgt. P. Flick
Australian Imperial Force 33rd Btn.
(d.23rd July 1917)
Rfm. James Flicker MM
British Army 9th Battalion, "A" Company Rifle Brigade
from:Islington, London
(d.24th Mar 1918)
I have been trying to reseach into the war record of Rifleman James Flicker. I have obtained his Medal Roll Index Card as he was awarded the Military Medal. Although I have researched extensively, I cannot find any where that may tell me why he was awarded it and the circumstances around the incident. Please can anyone point me in the right direction, as there doesn't seem to a surviving record for his service or war diary for his particular battalion.
Cpl. Walter Harold Flicker
Briitish Army 13th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:East Ham.
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Unfortunately I have no history of my great grandfather Walter Flicker. He served with the 13th Battalion, Essex Regiment and died on 13th November 1916.
He had two sons Walter and William, the name Walter carried on as my father is also Walter. If anyone has information I would be grateful to hear from you.
Rfn. Albert Edward Flint
British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:30 Prospect Street, East Kirkby, Nottinghamshire
(d.23rd April 1917)
Pte. Albert Flint
British Army 4th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk
Albert Flint was a patient in Citadel Military Hospital on 10th of October 1916 with tonsillitis.
Cpl. Charles Edward Flint
British Army 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Coventry,
(d.25th Nov 1916)
Charles Edward Flint was my grand uncle who was born in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire. He got married to Eva Darrington in the middle of 1913 in Coventry where he lived until his enlistment. When he signed up he put his name down as Edward Flint. He was serving in the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment as a corporal when he was killed on 25th November 1916 and is buried in The Brewery Orchard Cemetery Bois-Grenier France.
At this time I am getting the evidence together for the War Graves Commission records to amend his name to that on his birth certificate to read Charles Edward Flint.
Pte Ernest Robert Flint
British Army 22nd (The Queens) Battalion London Regiment
from:Bermondsey, London
L/Cpl. Harry Flint
British Army 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Isleworth, Middx
(d.16th September 1916)
Capt. Horace Lance Flint
British Army att. 7th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Nottinghamshire
Pte. Walter James Flint
British Army Rifle Brigade
Pte. George Flintham
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Darlington
George Flinton enlisted in 1914
Pte. John William Flintoft
British Army 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Lastingham, N.Yorkshire
(d.6th February 1915)
John Flintoft was born in Lastingham in November 1891. His father John was a stone mason and married Mary Jane Ward in Lastingham church in 1883. His brother, George Albert, was also killed in the war, thankfully their third son, Charles Francis, did return home safely.
John enlisted with the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in Hull on 7th of September 1914 and was posted to France on 22nd of January 1915. He died in the No 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Chocques on 6th of February 1915. So his war was very short, but very tragic. He is remembered in the Chocques Military Cemetery.
His brother, Gunner George A Flintoft, 252 Bde RFA, was killed in action at Mametz, France on September 17th 1916, aged just 19. He is remembered in the Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France. Both brothers are also remembered on the War Memorial in St Mary's Church Lastingham in North Yorkshire.
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.
Gnr. William Flipping
British Army 83rd Brigade, D Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:London
(d.19th July 1916)
William Flipping served with D Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Gnr. Wallace Flixon
British Army 173 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.19th November 1918)
Wallace Flixon was born in Chaddesdon, Derby. He was the son of Charles Hillier and Catherine Flixon, 80 Franchise Street, Derby. Wallace was 27 years old when he died and is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Germany, Grave VII.A.14.
Pte. John Frederick Float
British Army 1st/19th Bn. London Regiment
from:Paddington
(d.15th September 1916)
Jack Float served with the 19th London Regiment.
Mjr. Robert Pearce Flockart
Australian Imperial Force 5th Battalion
from:Australia
(d.15th July 1915)
Robert Pearce Flockart was born at Ballarat, Victoria, on 14th of November 1886 and received his education at Scotch College, Melbourne. Although employed as a clerk before the First World War, Flockart had a long involvement with the military. He was active in the Senior Cadets then in the Victorian Rifles and from 1912 was an area officer at Coburg. On joining the Australian Imperial Force on 25 August 1914, he was appointed a captain in the 5th Battalion. This was one of the first infantry units raised for the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War and Flockart departed for Egypt on HMAT Orvieto with this battalion just two months later in October 1914.
The 5th Battalion took part in the second wave of the Anzac landing on 25th of April 1915. Flockart was evacuated to Alexandria soon afterward for treatment of the 'slight' wounds to the face he received on 26th of April 1915. Promoted to major on 27 April 1915, he returned to the battalion on 17th of May and received temporary command of the battalion between 18th & 27th May 1915. Flockart was wounded again on 12th of July when he received a gunshot wound to the head. He was evacuated to the Hospital Ship Gascon but died on 15th of July 1915. Robert Flockart was buried at sea and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.
Pte. Henry Flood
British Army 3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment
According to Henry Flood's certificate of employment during the war certificate, pre war Henry was a clerk, he joined the 3rd Cheshires on the 29th of March 1915 and was de-mobbed on 28th of January 1919. He was a 1st class qualified signalmen with the Cheshires.
In my possession is his medal trio, de-mob certificate and his membership card to the Cheshire Regiment Old Comrades Association based at Chester Castle dated 21st of August 1932.
Pte. Thomas Patrick Flood
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Kilkenny Town
(d.5th April 1917)
Thomas Flood served with the 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, attached 47th Trench Mortar Battery, in WW1. He died 5th of April 1917 aged 25 years and is buried La Laiterie Military Cemetery in Belgium. Son of John and Mary Flood of Walkin St. Kilkenny.
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