Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GV with 'Regular Army' bar (1042100 Cpl. J. Flynn. R.E.)

Recipient was a native born American, from Brooklyn, New York, who was of Irish descent

Photograph: Reference the Ancestry Genealogical website, for a very detailed 'Family Tree' entry that includes an identified photograph of the recipient, holding the rank of Sergeant and serving overseas in the 1930's with the Royal Engineers, in which he is wearing his 1914 Star trio together with LS&GC

Second World War Casualty: Tragically, the recipient Quartermaster Sergeant James Flynn took his own life on 14 February 1941

The body of Company Quartermaster J. M. Flynn, rests in a burial plot at Cliffe (St. Helen) Churchyard, Kent, England, where memory and service of Quartermaster Sergeant James Flynn Royal Engineers is perpetuated for posterity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission who maintain a memorial headstone engraved with the soldiers service details and regimental insignia. CGGC records show that James was the son of James and Mary Flynn, and the husband of Daphne Flynn, of Gillingham, Kent, England.

His widow had the below epitaph inscribed on the headstone:

Quote,

Time Can Bring No Vain Regrets Nor Take Away Sweet Memory

Unquote. 

Medals Verification: In addition to his LS&GC medal Company Quarter-Master Sergeant Flynn is confirmed entitled to 4 x other war medals for his services in both world wars, per below following referenced sources:

- 1914 Star. No clasp: WO 329/2406 disembarked France 19/08/14 as 73589 Driver 15th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 
- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/107 rank shown as Corporal
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/107 rank shown as Corporal
- War Medal 1939-45: Awarded for 28 days service in British Army (recipient confirmed serving during the War years 1939-41
- Military LS&GC. GV issue with 'Regular Army' bar: Awarded after completing 18 years aggregated service with 'The Colours' 

James Michael Flynn was a native born American of Irish descent who was born in Brooklyn, New York on 5 September 1894. Prior to the Great War, James joined the British Army on 31/07/1913 on which date he was posted to the Royal Field Artillery branch of the Royal Regiment of Artillert, in which unit he was allocated the regimental number 73589. He subsequently served with the 15th Brigade Royal Field Artillery in France from 19/08/1914. He transferred to the Royal Engineers on 23 February 1923, and undertook overseas tours of duty in Malta and Hong Kong Colony. Was promoted to Sergeant in February 1935. Based in the U.K. on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he was posted to 24 Chemical Warfare Group in February 1941, in which unit he was advanced to Company Quarter-Master Sergeant. Tragically, soon afterwards, he took his own life, his death certificate stating ‘by a rifle bullet self-inflicted whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed.’

Condition: GVF

Code: 26050