Hope Laurice Wilfrid "Jerry" Flynn

1894 - 1918  (23 years)

• Name	Hope Laurice Wilfrid "Jerry" Flynn
  Born	18 Dec 1894	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	military, war, misfortune, life story
  Residence	1911	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Methodist
  Military	1914	WW1   [3]
  	WW1, Captain, 32nd Battalion
  Military	1914	WW1   [2]
  	WW1, Service #2779665
  Misfortune	1918
  	killed in war
  Name	H. L. W. (Jerry) Flynn
  Name	Jerry Laurice Flynn
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-355209
  Died	3 Sep 1918	, France
  Buried	Sin-le-Noble Communal Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Frances
  Person ID	I355209	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	John Irwin Flynn,   b. 1864, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Lilly Ann Catherine Hilliard,   b. 13 Dec 1869, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1952  (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F5723	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S366] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1911, Div. 44 Pg. 15. [S157] Military - Canada - World War I - Attestation papers. [S1890] Military - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Kitchener Public Library WW1 Soldiers Card Index Soldier Information Cards - World War One.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 18 Dec 1894 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 3 Sep 1918 - , France  = Link to Google Earth