Monday 6 September 2010

10203 Pte Albert V Flockton, 1st Bn, Coldstream Gds

10203 Private Albert Victor Flockton of the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, was killed in action on the 6th September 1914. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and enlisted at Coventry in June or July 1913. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 20 years old, the son of Joseph William and Emma Flockton of 137 Little Heath Road, Foleshill, Coventry. He is listed on a special memorial in Montreuil-aux-Lions British Cemetery in France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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