John Flynn

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215354621
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132812
• Residence: 1862, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

John married Eleanor "Ellen" Morton 8 Apr 1862, , Perth Co., Ontario, Canada. Eleanor (daughter of William Morton and Margaret Carson) was born CALC 21 Dec 1838, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec; died 21 Feb 1924, Beulah, , Manitoba, Canada; was buried , Birtle Cemetery, Birtle, , Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132834
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

John — Lilly Ann Catherine Hilliard. Lilly (daughter of Thomas L. Hilliard and Catharine Lillian Sauder) was born 13 Dec 1869, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1952; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132845
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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After weeks of suffering, Mrs Robert Whitelaw passed to the Great Beyond at St Marys hospital Saturday morning. Every possible care was given her by her family connection and friends with whom she associated during her long residence here.

Deceased came west from Shakespere. Ont, with her parents Mr and Mrs John Flynn, in spring of 1881, to their homestead two miles west of Birtle. All her 55 years since was spent in this district. She took an active part in all that makes community life happy.

Surviving are, her daughter Mrs E. Bonner, sisters Mrs T. Green at Beulah and Mrs Orr at Binscarth, brothers John Flynn at Calgary, Wm at Birtle, James in Winnipeg and an uncle, Samuel Morton at Birtle. Her husband, Robert Whitelaw died in 1932. Three brothers and two sisters predeceased her.

Funeral service was held by Dr J. E. Lane in the United Church yesterday afternoon and what was mortal, laid to rest in the family plot in Birtle cemetery.

Birtle Eye-Witness 1936

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132856
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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Mrs J. T. Green who has long been a resident of Birtle and Beulah districts passed away on January 10th at the home of her daughter Mrs Alex Woods at Binscarth after a short illness. The funeral service was held in St. George's Church in Birtle with Rev. B. O. Whitfield in charge and burial was in the family plot in Birtle Cemetery. Many old-timers and others attending attested the esteem in which Mrs Green was held by all. The casket was borne by Geo. Armstrong and G. J. Heyhoe of Beulah, A. Sawyer and R. Smith of Birtle and Jas. Orr and J. H. Cornell of Binscarth.

Mrs Green was born at Shakespeare, Ontario, in 1867, nee Agnes Josephine Flynn, and came to Birtle in 1881 with her parents Mr and Mrs John Flynn. In 1890 she married John Thomas Green, who came from Durham England, Birtle and Beulah districts had been their home since. Mr Green died a year ago.

There are four children surviving Mrs A. B. Woods, Binscarth. Mrs G. L. Woods and Mrs Fred Green of Beulab, and Ted Green at Aylsham, Sask., also a sister Mrs Eva Orr of Binscarth and a brother William Flynn of Birtie.

Birtle Eye-Witness 20 Jan 1948

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-132867
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Interesting: military, war, misfortune, life story
• Name: H. L. W. (Jerry) Flynn
• Name: Jerry Laurice Flynn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-355209
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Captain, 32nd Battalion
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #2779665
• Misfortune: 1918; killed in war

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Jerry H.L.W. Flynn

It was morning on September 12, 1918 when a Waterloo mother received two pieces of mail '96 a letter from her son, a pilot fighting overseas in the Great War, and a telegram from the secretary of the Canadian Air Force. One can only wonder which letter Mrs. Lilly Flynn opened first. The letter from her 19-year-old son, Captain Jerry Flynn, was dated August 13 and he wrote of being in good health. The telegram from Ottawa told Mrs. Flynn that her son was reported missing on September 3.

The story of Jerry Flynn is but one story of the losses that Waterloo families suffered in the Great War between 1914 and 1918. Jerry Flynn was one of sixteen Waterloo soldiers who died.....


It would be much later that newsreaders in Waterloo would learn of the agony "Little Jerry's" squadron would express the day he went tumbling down in flames after being shot by one of a dozen Fokkers. In 1967, the Waterloo Chronicle published an account by Captain Bogart Rogers of the moment Flynn's comrades learned the "pet of the squadron" had lost his life:

On that day the whole outfit blew up like a toy balloon. A kid
named John Trussler, grabbed his champagne glass, hurled it the
length of the mess, leaped to his feet and started a vivid impression
of a lunatic . . . he swore and cursed and cried. He cursed God
and the Germans. He cursed the war and the army. He cursed his
parents because he was born.

He told Little Jerry Flynn who he knew was sitting in the room
listening to him, who was sitting right there in that chair that he
didn't have to worry. They couldn't get away with it.
His comrades tried to stop his cursing and raving and finally
pulled him down into a chair. He hid his head in his hands and
sobbed horribly. Half of the others were sobbing. The rest were
trying to quieten things down but feeling no better themselves.

Waterloo Public Library https://www.wpl.ca/sites/default/files/waterloo_150/flynn_jerry.pdf

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-23527
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-23528