FLOOD, John Michael
| Service Number: | 1022 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 September 1914, at Morphettville |
| Last Rank: | Bugler |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, September 1886 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Bugler, 1022, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Morphettville | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement 1022, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked 1022, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
John Michael Flood was born in Adelaide. He had dark brown hair and was 5 foot 11 with grey eyes. John was a Roman Catholic. He grew up in Adelaide and had a job as a tailor. Tailors are people who sew and make clothing or fabricated items. To get more money, he stole valuables from people and because he did, he was sentenced to jail. He was married before he enlisted for a position in the army. He was married to Mrs W Flood who also was in jail with him. They had a daughter Eileen who was their guardian and was the next of kin of John. John was 27 years and 11 months of age when he enlisted for the army. He enlisted for the army while in jail on the second of September 1914 and was let out of jail to train at Morphettville. His rank on enlistment was bugler. He trained at Morphettville for just over a month and after that, he was transported to Egypt where he resumed training for the war. He travelled to Egypt onboard a ship called A11 Ascanius. He departed Australia on the 20th of October 1914.
John Michael Flood travelled to Egypt and trained there for just under three months. During those three months, John was absent without leave on several occasions. This means that he didn’t get an approved holiday or day off, so it resulted in detention. John also rarely attended these. After a short three months of training, leaving unnecessarily and not obeying orders he was discharged from the AIF. He was described as an encumbrance. The service record states that he was a bad influence and that he was never likely to become an efficient soldier. John was not a very obedient soldier and he was punished for his actions. His final rank was a private which was the lowest.
John was transported back to Australia on a boat called Kyarra on the third of February 1915. In 1918, that same ship sunk by a German U-boat/submarine.
Not a lot is known about John after he returned back from Egypt.