Francis Walter Hillbury Swayslin Flinn

1895-1961

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.1

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1262

About

Born in New Zealand

20 July 1895
Live

Hometown

Auckland
Work

Occupation

Labourer
Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

  • 3rd Battalion, Auckland Countess of Ranfurly's Own and Northland Regiment

    New Zealand

  • World War I (1914-1918)

    New Zealand Tunnellers

    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 66

    20 November 1961

    Sources

    Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

    New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5537 104/0040804, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Francis Walter Hillbury Swayslin Flinn (1895-1961)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/275