Date de naissance: 30/08/1882

Lieu de naissance: Little Tew, Oxfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Boulanger

Pays: Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Private

Numéro de service: 40737

Incorporation nom de lieu: Oxford, Oxfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Unités:  —  Worcestershire Regiment, 10th Bn.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 24/07/1917

Lieu de décès: Pheasant Wood, Belgique

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 34

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

Private James William Flynn - a 34-year-old baker from Oxford - was part of the 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, 57th Brigade, 19th Division.

On July 22nd 1917 the battalion moved into the line, which ran through Green Wood, south of the village of Hollebeke. Two companies held posts in the wood, further back another Company was entrenched in the old front line at Rose Wood and another in reserve in a trench east of Godezeune Farm. This line was held under heavy artillery fire until the 29th of July, when the Regiment was relieved and moved to Kemmel.

Private James William Flynn was most likely mortally wounded on the 24th of July by shellfire while holding the line. As he was buried near Pheasant Wood (near a road called Damm Strasse), it is possible he died while being evacuated to the rear.

Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/ Sources utilisées

CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/456541/flynn,-/ Sources utilisées

H.Fitz M. Stacke, The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, 270-271. Sources utilisées

Naval & Military Archive http://www.nmarchive.com/ Sources utilisées

The Long, Long Trail https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ Sources utilisées