World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Randolph Alexander Flintoff
Forename(s):
Randolph Alexander
Surname:
Flintoff
Initial(s):
R A
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
Lieutenant
(Temporary)
Regiment:
East Yorkshire Regiment, 10th (Service) Battalion (1st Hull)
Died:
24/06/1916
Aged:
33
Buried:
Bertrancourt Military Cemetery
Service History:
Died of gas wounds.
Background:
Born in the first half of 1883, at Alnwick, Northumberland, the son of the late Churchill Flintoff, of Hill House, Bondgate Within, Alnwick (a Dentist, by profession), by his wife, Susan Hephzibah Gladwin, daughter of the Reverend Francis P. Gladwin (West House, Haighington, Darlington, County Durham).
Pre-enlistment occupation: Manager, William F. Russell & Sons, of Ocean Chambers, Hull (Coal Exporters).
Probate was granted at London on 4 October 1916, to Bertram Clay, Coal Exporter's Manager, & Joseph Ernest Archer, Solicitor, for Effects valued at £1,675-2s-5d. Flintoff's address was given as 19, Marlborough Avenue, Kingston-upon-Hull.
One of 2 sons lost - see, also, Private Arthur John Flintoff (Regimental service #1127; Australian Imperial Force, 4th Infantry Battalion; Died 1 May 1915)
Local Memorial:
Darlington, Memorial Cross in St. Michael's Churchyard, Heighington
Darlington, Memorial Plaque in St. Michael's Church, Heighington
Darlington, Roll of Honour in St. Michael's Church, Heighington
(Source: newmp.org.uk)