BORN “FLINN” AT WORTLEY-IN-BRAMELY, 1889. YOUNGEST SON OF WALTER FLINN & ANNIE TOOD, OF 55, STRICKLAND STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE PREVIOUSLY WORKED AS A RULLYMAN. ALSO WORKED AS A SHIP’S COOK & FIREMAN. HE WAS ALSO AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL. CONVICTED FOR ONE MONTH FOR STEALING IRON AT LEEDS COURT, ON 27 AUG 1906; TWO MONTHS FOR STEALING A GELDING, AT HULL, ON 27 OCT 1909; EIGHT MONTHS FOR STEALING A GAS OVEN & FIRE RANGE, ON 31 MAR 1910. HE SERVED SIX MONTHS JAIL FOR STEALING 49 LBS OF MUTTON, ON 27 JULY 1911. HE SERVED JAIL AT HULL HMP. HE RECEIVED NINE MONTHS HARD LABOUR FOR STEALING SUITS, CLOTHES, & BOOTS IN LEEDSON, 24 DEC 1913, . HE WAS ALSO CONVICTED SEVEN TIMES FOR BEING DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. HIS PRISON RECORDS DESCRUBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES TALL, DARK BROWN HAIR AND BROWN EYES.
HE ENLISTED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 8 SEPT 1915. HE SERVED WITH THE 8TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 4 OCT 1916, AGED 25 & BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ANNIE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
I am grateful to Dr. Marianne M Gilchrist for the following information:
This is Stephen Flynn (more correctly, Flinn), my maternal great-uncle. He was born in Wortley-in-Bramley in 1889, the third (second surviving) son of Walter Flinn (1857-1908) and his wife Annie, née Todd (1863-1931). The family had moved to Hull c. 1904, after living in Glasgow for a few years (my grandmother, Annie, was born there in 1901). Walter, originally from West Bromwich, was killed in an accident at William Wright Dock in 1908 (run over by a crane), which made the front page of the HDM, 11/09/1908.
Their Hull home address was 55 Strickland Street.
