Name
Frederick Charles Flux
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
722202
London Regiment *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STE. EMILIE VALLEY CEMETERY, VILLERS-FAUCON
III. C. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of William John and Ellen Phoebe (nee WILDIN/WILDEN) FLUX.
His parents married 1884 in the Winchester, Hants, district. William died 1927 in the Kensington, London, district aged 68; Phoebe died 1935 in the Stockport, Lancs, district aged 76.
Frederick was born 1896 in Buckingham, and resided in Watford when he enlisted in Kennington.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Slough, Bucks, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a garden boy aged 14, he lived in Letchmore Heath, Herts, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Kennington, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Tony James, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
