This name is on St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
F. C. Flatman
(Flatman, F. C.)
(Frederick Charles Flatman)
Service no 532065
Private, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), "D" Coy. 1st/15th Bn.
Died age 27 on 7 October 1916
Son of David Flatman, of Kennington, London.
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, France
Information from the censuses
In 1901 the Flatman family lived at 11 Trigon Grove. His father, David Flatman, 53, born in Wortham, Suffolk, was a packer of Manchester goods in a warehouse. (Manchester goods are towels, sheets etc, so called because in the 18th and 19th centuries - and into the 20th - Manchester was a major centre of the cotton industry. The term is still in use in Australia but not in the UK.) Frederick's mother, Emma, also 53, was born in Oxford.
The children registered on the 1901 census were
David S. Flatman, 20, clerk for a grocery contractor
Ida K. Flatman, 18, dressmaker
Frederick C. Flatman, 12, later remembered on the St Mark's War Memorial
All were born in South Lambeth.
Ten years previously, in 1891, the family lived at 6 Trigon Grove. Another daughter, Minnie, then 14, appears on the census return. Presumably she had left home by 1901.