233573 Pte. Thomas Flanagan British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers from:Oldham Thomas Flanagan was shot during the Battle of Oppy Wood in May 1917, he was picked up by the Canadian field ambulance a day later, he spent months recovering in Alder Hey hospital before being reassigned to the border regiment.
He had bad lungs after being gassed earlier in the war and still suffered from physical effects from the gunshot wound he sustained in 1917, he was found unfit for military service and sent back to Oldham.
In 1921 he committed suicide by kneeling in the road and refusing to move, he was struck by a motorcar, suffered a fractured skull and died in hospital later that night, leaving behind a wife and 4 children.
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