FLINN, JAMES WRIGHT

946873, Corporal, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Born 1917 Grimsby

Died 28/09/1945 at Grimsby General Hospital

Buried 01/10/1945

Son of John William Flinn (b 1888 Grimsby) and Elizabeth McKenzie McBeath(or MacBeth) b 1889 Caithness), married 07/04/1907 at St Andrew’s Church, Grimsby.

Husband of Janet Margaret Flinn (nee Taylor), married 1941 in Grimsby

Brother of Robert W Flinn (b. 1912, Grimsby)

Address on probate records given as Fisherman’s Arms, Wardall Street, Cleethorpes

James Wright Flinn died the day after his father John William Flinn, (manager, presumably of the Fisherman’s Arms). The two were filling a tin with petrol, struck a match to see if the tin was full and both died from their burns in hospital. They were buried together on the same day and in the same plot. Mother Elizabeth joined them in the plot less than three years later. The story of the men’s deaths merited a short paragraph in the Daily Mirror on 3rd October 1945.

Grave Ref: Section BB, Grave T28