Arthur Roy Harold FLANAGAN

FLANAGAN, Arthur Roy Harold

Service Number: 423
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd Pioneer Battalion
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 18 October 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Mudgee District Fallen Soldiers Memorial
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World War 1 Service

6 Jun 1916: Involvement Private, 423, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
6 Jun 1916: Embarked Private, 423, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne

Death

Source; National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW) Tuesday 18 December 1917. Quarter-Master Sergeant Harold ('Masher') Upfold, writing to a friend in Bathurst referred at length to the ''death of Andy Flanagan, who was killed by a bomb dropped from a German 'Gotha' aeroplane, in the trenches in Belgium. Death, accord ing to the Quarter-Master Sergeant, was instantaneous, whilst at the same time several others were wounded. He also pays a tribute to the deceased, opining that a finer soldier or more popular soldier never lived. On behalf of his comrades he extended their sympathy to the departed soldier's wife and family and assures them that a wooden cross is being erected above the soldiers grave, the exact where-abouts of which will be communicated as soon as possible.

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