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| Name: |
FLACK |
| Initials: |
W A |
| Nationality: |
United Kingdom |
| Rank: |
Driver |
| Regiment: |
Royal Engineers |
| Unit Text: |
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| Age: |
25 |
| Date of Death: |
12/08/1914 |
| Service No: |
17126 |
| Casualty Type: |
Commonwealth War Dead |
| Grave/Memorial Reference: |
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| Cemetery: |
HIGHWOOD (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD |
| Additional information: Son of
Alfred and Annie Flack, of Sunnyside, Highwood. |
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| When war was
declared on 4th August 1914, William Alfred Flack was a driver with the Corps
of Royal Engineers (reserve).He was 25 and was buried in his local cemetery
only eight days into the war. He isn’t listed on the war memorials at or
inside the church despite having been a local man. His father and mother Alfred
and Annie Flack lived at Sunnyside in Highwood. The 1901 Census shows that
Alfred was a wood carter and William was the oldest of three boys. |
| He was
admitted to Shoreditch Infirmary in London on 6 August 1914 and died there on
12 August 1914. Looks like he was lodging with a Mrs Osland at 13 Nichol
Street, Bethnal Green, London at time of been admitted to hospital. |
| He had
originally served with the 4th Battalion, the Essex Regiment (Territorial
Force) and was still a member when he enlisted in the Royal Engineers on 20
January 1908. He signed on for two years, going on to the Army Reserve on 20
January 1910 ‘on the expiration of his period of Army Service. |
| His brother
George Thomas Flack served with the 3rd/1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Yeomanry,
as Private 106154 (Originally 3013) He joined on 15 January 1916 and was
demobbed on 9 March 1919 after having contracted Malaria and been sent home
from Mesopotamia 1 January 1919. Family were living at Budds Cottage, Highwood,
Writtle, Essex. |