Lot Essay
INDENTSecond Lieutenant Frederick William Brown of St. Helen's, Lancashire, the Battalion bombing officer, fell in action leading a bombing party against a German attack 3 May 1915.
Lieutenant Phillip Woolven Flinn, born 1897, educated at Stoneyhurst, joined the Army three weeks after leaving there in 1915 and was in the trenches in France January 1916; wounded in the head during the Battle of the Somme and invalided, he returned to France again March 1917. Lieutenant Flinn was killed in action on Hill 37 South East of St Julien during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge 20 September 1917; he was shot in the head by a machine gun bullet during a German-counter attack at about 5.30pm, and was killed instantaneously - he is commemorated on the Tynecot Memorial.
Lieutenant Phillip Woolven Flinn, born 1897, educated at Stoneyhurst, joined the Army three weeks after leaving there in 1915 and was in the trenches in France January 1916; wounded in the head during the Battle of the Somme and invalided, he returned to France again March 1917. Lieutenant Flinn was killed in action on Hill 37 South East of St Julien during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge 20 September 1917; he was shot in the head by a machine gun bullet during a German-counter attack at about 5.30pm, and was killed instantaneously - he is commemorated on the Tynecot Memorial.