#10317 Thomas Flood Connaught Rangers

[jflood]

Any information please on Great Uncle Thomas,  10317 Pte Thomas Flood, from Dundee, Scotland.  Enlisted as a regular in 1911 in Glasgow and sent to Depot in Galway before posting to 1st Bn in Ferozepore, India.  Fell at 2nd Ypres on 26 April 1915.

 

 

[Mark1959]

What exactly are you after? What do you know so far?

From your comments I suspect you have seen his few existing service papers.

[MaxD]

If you haven't seen it, his service record is on Ancestry at:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1219/gbrmil1914r4pt2_139197-00497?pid=696327&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DMvA6630%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1219%26gsfn%3DThomas%26gsln%3DFlood%26cp%3D0%26qh%3D9c0Azpf0zapRPUQfqQo5fA%3D%3D%26_F8007A65%3D10317%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26uidh%3D6x5%26redir%3Dfalse%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D0%26h%3D696327%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=MvA6630&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=gbrmil1914r4pt2_139197-00499

as are his medal records.  The 1914 Star roll shows his arrival in France with 1st Battalion as 26 Sep 1914 which is the right month, his record has 26 August which is when they left India.  The convention is that the date of leaving for somewhere counts as the beginning of being there (if that makes sense).

His soldiers' effects register is also to be found on Ancestry.

The battalion war diary is at:

.https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60779/43112_3923_0-00000?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=43112_3923_0-00001 Casualties on 26 April were 15 of 20 officers killed or wounded and 361 other ranks of 900 killed wounded or missing.  Their part in the action was at La Brique, north east of Ypres, map/image at:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=50.8735&lon=2.9042&layers=101464897&right=BingHyb (ignore the trench lines, the map is from 1917).

 

Max

 

[sadbrewer]

17 hours ago, jflood said:

Any information please on Great Uncle Thomas,  10317 Pte Thomas Flood, from Dundee, Scotland.  Enlisted as a regular in 1911 in Glasgow and sent to Depot in Galway before posting to 1st Bn in Ferozepore, India.  Fell at 2nd Ypres on 26 April 1915.

 

 

 A bit from the British Newspaper Archive you might find interesting.