FLOWER, Reginald Owen
| Service Number: | 826 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Surrey, England, 1881 |
| Home Town: | Randwick, Randwick, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 826, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 826, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 5 Nov 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 826, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 826 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-11-05 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Reginald Owen FLOWER (Service Number 826) was born in Surrey, England, in 1881. In 1912 he joined the Tramways as a conductor in Sydney. In August 1914 he was released from duty to join the AIF at Randwick.
Allotted to the 1st Battalion, he was embarked from Sydney in October 1914 and sent to Gallipoli via Egypt.
On 5 November 1916 he was killed in action and buried at a map reference ‘about 450 yards NNW of Guedecourt’. After the war his grave could not be found, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Submitted 7 July 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Reginald Owen FLOWER (Service Number 826) was born in Surrey, England, in 1881. In 1912 he joined the Tramways as a conductor in Sydney.
In August 1914 he was released from duty to join the AIF at Randwick.
He was allotted to the 1st Battalion.
He embarked from Sydney in October 1914.
He was sent to Gallipoli via Egypt. On 21st August 1915 he was wounded in the right knee by shellfire. When the wound became septic he was evacuated to hospital on Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnons) on 26th August. He was discharged to base duties in September.
He re-joined his battalion in Egypt in January 1916. He was promoted to Lance Corporal before proceeding with them to France in March 1916. After attending an NCOs’ school of instruction he was promoted to Corporal in August and to Sergeant in September.
On 5th November 1916 he was killed in action. He was buried at a map reference ‘about 450 yards NNW of Guedecourt’. After the war his grave could not be found, and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board