Walter William Edward Flint
He attended Trent Bridge School, Green Street, Meadows, Nottingham.
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.He was the son of William and Emily Flint and the brother of Ernest VS Flint of Nottingham
NOTTINGHAM SOUTHERN CEMETERY Sec E19 Grave 52
At the start of the war, the107 Royal Horse Artillery (South Notts Hussars Yeomanry), which
was part of Northern Command, consisted of two batteries, the 425th and the 426th. In April 1942, the regiment was redesignated as the 107th (South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry) Field Regt RHA. It soon came under the command of the 1st Cavalry Division, with which it served in Palestine. The regiment later served at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, the Suez Canal, Tobruk, Tmimi, the Nile Delta, Sidi Bishr (Alexandria) and Beni Yusef.
During the devastating Battle of Gazala (Knightsbridge "Box") in 1942 the unit fought to the last round and was destroyed almost to a man against the Afrika Korps. It was fighting a suicidal defensive rear-guard action to cover the retreat of the British Army. The surviving men were reconstituted into the 107th Medium Battery. The battery fought its way across the Western Desert as part of the 8th Army, pushing through Tunisia until the Axis forces surrendered in May 1943.
It is assmed that Flint was wounded during one of these campaigns, succumbing to his injuries in the UK.
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