Name
Brian Stewart Flood
4/10/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/01/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
T/242922
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Territorial Force War, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 6.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone, he is recorded on the Basra Memorial to the fallen, Basra, Iraq.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Chipperfield memorials, St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Bedford, Park, Chiswick, Middx., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) FWW Book of Remembrance, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent
Pre War
Brian Stewart Flood was born on 4 October 1894, in Hammersmith, London/Middlesex, son of Frederick Lloyd Flood and Florence Mary (nee Milligan) Flood. His father’s occupation is given as an Actor on his parents’ marriage certificate and a Gentleman on his Baptism record.
His birth was registered under the name of Eric Oscar Flood, but he was Baptised, Brian Stewart Flood, on 9 March 1898, at Christ Church, Turnham Green, Chiswick. It is not known why his name was changed.
His parents married in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 18 January 1893, divorcing in 1897, his father Frederick was granted custody of the two children, it would aper the children were put into foster care by their father, the 1901 Census records Brian as “Stewart” aged 7, and his sister Edith 8, as boarders living with sisters Helen and Emily Seymour-Turner, at their boarding house, at 20, Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick. The Census also records a Kathleen Flood aged 6, as a boarder, she was the only daughter of their father’s elder brother Edgar.
1911 Census records Brian aged 16, working as an Accountants Clerk, still boarding with the Seymour-Turner sisters, his sister Edith was living elsewhere, his cousin Kathleen was still a boarder and recorded as a Student. They were now living at 19, Harvard Road, Chiswick.
Brian enlisted at Stamford Brook, Chiswick, in the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, Territorial Force, with the service number 1802, before the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
At the out break of war Brian was still a serving member of the Territorial Force. The Middlesex Regiment was part of the Home Counties Division along with the East Kent Regiment. The Division was mobilised and sailed from Southampton for India on 30 October 1914, arriving in Bombay, on 2 December 1914. On arrival in Bombay the Division was broken up, Brian was posted to the East Kent Regiment initially with the service number 6151 then 242922.
He arrived in Mesopotamia in November 1915, seeing action at Kut, Hai, Khedira and the Hai Salient. He was killed in action on 25th January 1917, possible at the battle for the Hai Salient (25 Jan to 5 Feb 1917).
His “Foster mother” Helen Seymour-Turner, was his sole Legatee, none of his medals (Territorial Force, British War & Victory Medals) were accepted by her and returned. Helen was awarded a Dependents Pension as his foster mother of 10/- a week from 2 April 1918, she also received his effects of £3, & £5-16s-6d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £11.
No further information was found regarding his sister Edith, nor his father or mother, other than the CWGC records, which record his father as living in Chipperfield Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
