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Pte. George Alfred John Flack
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Romford
(d.15th Oct 1916)
George Flack was born in Windsor Castle (where his father was a gardener). After the death of his father, the family moved to Navestock in Essex, where he became a house boy on a farm. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in Romford, Essex. He was killed during the Somme offensive at the battle of Transloy, during one of the many attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt. His remains were never recovered and he is remembered with pride on the Thiepval memorial and by his descendants. His brother Harry (John) also died whilst serving in the same regiment on 5th December 1918, possibly from influenza, and is buried in Selridge British Cemetery, Montay, France.