Maj Horace John Flower 1883 -1919

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Commonwealth War Graves Commssion would like to contact relatives of Maj Horace John Flower -
Arthur Flower and Mother Isabel Margaret Cockeyne Pauncefoot Flower.
The commisssion is in the process of producing a headtsone to commemorate him as it is not possible to mark his original grave.

Horace born 06/04/1883 and passed away  31/01/1919.  Cemetery Gerrards Croos St James Churchyard.
Major Flower served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was 35. He was awarded the DSO [Distinguished Service Order] and the MC [Military Cross]

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/7532441/FLOWER,%20HORACE%20JOHN

Birth Redg - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NBGH-PYF

1891 census Wheathampstead.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W88Z-V3Z

1901 census with brother Conrad
 
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSXB-298


FIND A GRAVE

Brookwood Military Cemetery Brookwood, Woking Borough, Surrey.
Plot   Listed on the Brookwood (United Kingdom 1914-1918) Memorial.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56634287/horace-john-flower

https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/person/110639

https://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/horace-john-flower/

Appears on lots of British Army Lists -

probate 16 June 1919 - Beneficiary's Name Hugh Duncombe Flower
Second Beneficiary's Name Conrad Herbert Flower


1881 census The Hyde Luton Bedfordshire.
 
Arthur Flower   34 born Tooting, Surrey. JP
Isabel Flower   28
Mary I. Flower   7
Philip A. Flower   6
Ethel D. Flower   5
Hugh D. Flower   2
Violet Flower

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Portrait of Conrad and Violet Flower

http://www.artnet.com/artists/anthony-frederick-augustus-sandys/double-portrait-of-conrad-herbert-flower-and-NmulRq15WxBww0i1yilQ3g2

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01o4z/

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Conrad Herbert (Major London Regt.) Flower was born 1882,  to Arthur (Captain) Flower and Isabel Margaretta Cockayne Flower (born Pauncefort-Duncombe).

Conrad Herbert Flower passed away 20 september 1947 - probate 1 january 1949 London -
18 St Phillip Square - Queenstown Road Battersea and of the Rookery - probate was to widow Alice Winifred Flower and hugh Duncombe Flower (banker)  £43,506  5s 1d.

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Hugh Duncombe Flower married 24 April 1909 to Ida Hamilton.

Hugh Duncombe Flower1878 - 1950 Westminster London - 5 c 408
Probate to his son Peter.

Son Peter Hgh Flower 1910 - 3 May 1993

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/9KD2-LYQ/peter-hugh-flower-1910-1993

spouse - Lydia Josephine Huth 1914 - 1998

married Westminster - 1a 1125 - June 1937 - Peter and Lydia.
There was a boirth of a daughter "V" - registered June 1939 - Marylebone - 1a 604

Noticed a UK return passenger list returning from  Port Said, Egypt arriving 14
June 1947 - with that young lady ("V" aged 8 years and a possible brother "C.H" aged 5 years)
Going to Wans Dyke Marlborough Wiltshire.

Believe "V" married September 1964 - Chelsea - 5c 517  - spouse surname Mr Andrew C H Smith.

Mr Andrew Hugh Smith - 6 September 1931 passed away 3 October 2012 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Obituary shows survived by 2 sons

Sir Andrew Hugh Smith, born September 6 1931, died October 3 2012

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/9634236/Sir-Andrew-Hugh-Smith.html


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Brother Neville Alfred Cyril Flower - of Codicote Mill Hertfordshire died 3 April 1931 - probate London 3 July to Hugh Duncombe Flower and Conrad Herbert Flower. (retired Captains. HM Army.

Neville married Rita N Ponsonby - first quarter 1918 - St George Hanover Square - 1a 1011

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Brother Philip Arthur Flower - born 1875 - died 1910 Chelsea - 1a 202

Philip Arthur Flower married 1903 Nina Banbury.

Flower    Ronald Philip        Chelsea    1a   397  - birth registered June 1905.

Nina Flowers remarried 19 October 1912 - Holy Trinity, Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea to Francis William Murray Sturges.

Nina Sturges died 13 November 1952 - 18 York House Turk 's Row Chelsea. Widow of P A Flowers and William Sturges.

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Ronald Philip Flower - 16 April 1905 - Nov 1993 - Basingstoke Hants - aged 88 years -
Register Number A37C - District and Subdistrict 4911A
Entry Number 30

Ronald Philip Flower married 18 June 1927 - Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington and Chelsea.
Spouse Neona Rogerson -
Think the couple divorced

Ronald P Flower remarried 1952 to Gloria R M Fisher Or Vaughan.  5 c 2069 - Kensington London.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p8200.htm

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Sister Ethel Daisy Flower - married Geoffrey Head - St George Hanover Square 1902 -
Ethel died 9 Aug 1965 Private Patients Nursing Home Norfolk.  Probate 15 December 1965 - to Susan Johnston (widow) £28,187

Geoffrey Head 1872 - 1955 - Westminster London - 5c 379

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Sister Mary Isobel Flower - 136 Ashley Gardens Westminster - spinster - died 17 March 1925 - at 6 Queens Terrace Windsor - probate 28 April 1925 London to Isabel Margaretta Cockayne Flower (widow)

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