FLOWER Oswald Swift

  • First Name(s):
    Oswald 
    Swift 
  • Surname:
    FLOWER
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant Colonel

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    13th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    12th July 1916
  • Age At Death:
    45
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Morlancourt British Cemetery No.1, France, Grave B. 21
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of the late Edgar and Isabella Flower, of Middlehill Park, Broadway, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

FLOWER Oswald Swift Is Named On These Memorials

Broadway St Eadburgha’s Church Flower WW1 Memorial
Broadway St Michael and All Angels Church
Broadway War Memorial

Further Information About FLOWER Oswald Swift

The inscription on the plaque reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
COLONEL OSWALD SWIFT FLOWER,
ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS.
THIRD SON OF EDGAR & ISABELLA FLOWER.
SERVED WITH DISTINCTION
IN THE CHINESE EXPEDITION 1900.
HE DIED LEADING HIS MEN AT THE TAKING
OF MAMETZ WOOD, FRANCE,
IN THE EUROPEAN WAR, JULY 11TH 1916.
MENTIONED MANY TIMES IN DISPATCHES.
“Being dead yet speaketh.”
“Faithful unto death.”

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