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Private Crosbie Edward Flude

 

Number: 11288

Company: 61st (South Irish Horse) Company (Dublin), 17th Battalion, First Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: 1 February 1900

Place: Newbridge

Age: 23 years 7 months

Trade or calling: Farmer

Place of birth: In the Parish of Dublin, in or near the Town of Dublin, in the County of Dublin

Family: Single. Father Henry Robert Flude, clerk, Guinness's Brewery, died 27 April 1902, mother Mary Louisa Alicia Flude (nee Walsh) of The Cottage, Bray, Wicklow.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 9". Complexion fair, eyes grey, hair fair.

Religion: Other Protestant

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 6 April 1900

Date home: 7 August 1900

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Rhodesia clasp.

DISCHARGE

Date: 28 February 1901

Reason for discharge: Medically unfit. Left leg amputated at the knee, gun shot wound received whilst on duty.

OTHER INFORMATION

A letter from a pal in the 61st Company, published in the Weekly Irish Times on 28 July 1900, described the circumstances of Flude's injury:

[At] 23 mile camp ... one of the Dubliners met with an accident. It appears some of the officers of the 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry were out shooting, and returning late in the evening saw what they took for an animal drinking at a river. One of the party fired, and hearing screams they immediately ran forward and discovered one of their own men had been shot in the leg, which he has since lost.

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