Regimental number | 6543 |
Place of birth | Major's Creek, nr Braidwood, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Major's Creek, Braidwood, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 22 |
Height | 5' 7" |
Weight | 133 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, Walter Flack, Major's Creek, Braidwood, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Nil (previously rejected for enlistment on account of eyes) |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Goulburn, New South Wales |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 18th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/35/4 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 18th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 85 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated in St Stephen's Anglican Church, Major's Creek, New South Wales. Roll of Intercession in the church reads: 'The Prayers of Parishioners are asked for the following Soldiers who are serving their God, King, and Country in the World War against Germany's Aggression, Tyranny, and Frightfulness.' |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 7 February 1917; disembarked Devonport, England, 11 April 1917, and marched into 5th Training Bn, Rollestone. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 17 May 1917 (pyrexia, unknown origin); discharged to duty, 25 May 1917 (bronchitis). Proceeded overseas to France, 10 September 1917; marched into 2nd Australian Division Base Depot, Havre, 11 September 1917. Joined 18th Bn, in the field, Belgium, 29 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 5 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |