First World War British Victory Medal - Private Martin Flood, Manchester Regiment
Victory Medal - 514 PTE. M. FLOOD. MANCH. R. suspension ring replaced
Martin Flood, service number 514, served with the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, ‘A’ Company. A long-service Regular soldier, he had completed 11 years’ service by 1914 and had seen pre-war overseas duty, being recorded in the 1911 Census serving with the 1st Battalion in India.
Flood landed in France on 27 August 1914, he was first wounded in the opening months of the war: on 19 October 1914 he received a bullet wound to the neck and was admitted to the 14th Field Ambulance, transferred onward on 20 October to Bethune. Casualty lists confirm his admission to Colchester Military Hospital and his appearance in The Times casualty reports (30 November 1914).
Flood was wounded twice more during the war. Casualty Lists show him reported wounded on 8 August 1916, and again on 1 December 1917 (Daily List No. 5431). In each case he was officially entitled to the wearing of the Wound Stripe under Army Order 204 of 6 July 1916.
Post-war records place him back in Manchester. The 1921 Census lists him as a Rubber Worker, living at 8 Bradford Road, Ancoats, with his wife and children. Earlier census entries (1901) show him born in Manchester to Patrick and Catherine Flood, and raised in the St Andrew’s parish.
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