Name
Harry Charles Flowers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
33557
York & Lancs Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Harry Flowers was born on 13th August 1898 at Abbots Langley. He was one of eight children (five sons and three daughters) born to Henry and Elizabeth Flowers. At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at the Model Cottages at Troley Bottom, Abbots Langley. Henry, who had previously been employed as an Asylum Attendant (1891) worked as a General Labourer. By 1911 the family had moved to Asylum Terrace, and Henry worked as a Roadsman for the County Council.
Harry was listed for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in February 1917 serving with the Training Reserve. Sometime later in the year he was posted to the 12th Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment, and in 1918 moved on to the 2/4th Battalion of the same Regiment. He served with the 2/4th until the end of the War, and was listed in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Records serving with the 13th Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. His address in both Absent Voter Records was given at Asylum Road, Abbots Langley, and he was listed in these records as Henry, not Harry.
Harry Flowers survived the War, as did his brother Leonard, who served with the Royal Navy. However his other brother, Aubrey, who had emigrated to Canada sometime between 1911 and 1914, served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force was killed in action on 24th April 1916 at Ypres. His brother in law, Arthur Kimble, who had married his sister Agnes, died at a Base Hospital on the French coast at Le Treport on 15th April 1915, from wounds sustained at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle.
Additional Information
Formerly 2/4th & 12th York & Lancaster Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
