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  • Edwin Flavell
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  • Flavell was born on 22 February 1898 at 15 Stansfield Road, Stockwell, London (please note that the Daily Telegraph obituary, dated 22.12.93,and most other sources,gives the place of birth as Cookham, Berks. The place of birth is verified from the birth certificate) He was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon, London. Flavell died on 29 November 1993 aged 95. Some sources give 8 November or 1 December 1993 as the date of death.
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serviceyears
  • 1914
  • 1939
Birth Date
  • 1898-02-22
Commands
  • 1
  • 2
  • 6
Branch
death place
  • Eastbourne, Sussex
Name
  • Edwin William Conquest Flavell
Caption
  • Brigadier Flavell with Field Marshal Montgomery during the Battle of the Bulge
Birth Place
  • 15
Awards
death date
  • 1993-11-29
Rank
Battles
laterwork
  • Deputy Lieutenant for Middlesex . Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire .
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  • Flavell was born on 22 February 1898 at 15 Stansfield Road, Stockwell, London (please note that the Daily Telegraph obituary, dated 22.12.93,and most other sources,gives the place of birth as Cookham, Berks. The place of birth is verified from the birth certificate) He was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon, London. Flavell died on 29 November 1993 aged 95. Some sources give 8 November or 1 December 1993 as the date of death. Son of Edwin George Flavell, who was born Theobalds Road, Luton, Beds 1871, and Emily Eliza Conquest, born Grays Inn Road, London W.C. 1874. His father was a commercial clerk (a billiard marker (sic))and his mother a cashier in a drapery store or manufacturing outlet. He had an older sister, Constance Lillian Flavell, born 1895. In the 1911 Census the thirteen year old scholar was given as living with his parents and sister at 39 Almeric Road, Battersea Rise, London (just west of Battersea Common). He married in 1920 to Nora Cooper, having two sons and a daughter with her. He married for a second time, to Kathleen Fenton,an accomplished concert pianist. One son, James, served in the Middlesex Regiment and the other in the RAF. Flavell and both sons were at Arnhem in 1944. Later domiciles include: 47 Sarsfield Road, Balham, London, SW12 (1921); "La Clytte", 56 Parkfield Road, Ickenham, Middlesex (sample dates 1923-39, but maybe longer); 4 Carlton House, West End Lane, Hampstead, London, NW6 (sample date 1952); from 14.11.60 "The Penthouse", 86 Eaton Place, Pimlico, London, SW1 (to 1965 and maybe longer). An undated address is given for after 1938 of 28 Park Gate, Eastbourne. A temporary address for 22.10.41 is given as Lt. Col. E. Flavell, 2nd Parachute Battalion, c/o G.P.O. Chesterfield, Derbyshire. At some point in the 1940/50s he lived at 31 Milton Court, Milton Road, Ickenham, Middlesex. In the Ickenham Lodge No. 5770 (Middlesex) Members' Record Book, at the Consecration of the Lodge on 27 February 1939, it is noted that his occupation was "company director", then living at his Hampstead address.