Newcastle Journal Tuesday 29th August 1916
Carole Fife has provided the following:
William Flockhart was born in 1884 in Bedlington, where he lived all his life until he enlisted. He was the sixth child and third son of Thomas and Ann Flockhart, and worked as a miner, for the Bedlington Coal Company.
He was one of the many Tyneside Scottish who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. His body was never found and he is named on the Thiepval Memorial.
His elder brother, James, a Private (23/518) in the 23rd [4th Tyneside Scottish], Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers died on the same day in the same battle aged 41, and is buried in Ovilliers Cemetery. His younger brother John, (Pte 21/341) also served in the 21st [2nd Battalion Tyneside Scottish], Northumberland Fusiliers He survived the war but suffered from shell shock.
William Flockhart is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04 and at Bedlington on B15.06
