Name
Edwin Joseph Flack
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Bombardier
890171
Royal Field Artillery
A Bty. 270th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XXXII. F. 4.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial
St Mary The Virgin Church Memorial Plaque, Stanstead St Margaret’s
Pre War
Born in November 1890 Son of Edward and Elizabeth Flack of Chapel Lane (now Cappell Lane) Stanstead Abbotts, with sisters Mary and Mabel and brothers Frederick and Ernest. Edward was a wheelwright and Edwin was a local gardener.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford and joined Royal Field Artillery, A Battery, 270th Brigade. Sent to France in November 1915. Served in France and Belgium until 1917 when they were posted to Palestine where the war against the Ottoman Empire was taking place. As he was not shown as killed or died of wounds he may have died from sickness as malaria and typhus were not uncommon.
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins
