FOWC Portfolio

Second Lieutenant Alfred Edward Flaxman
Alfred Flaxman was an Olympian and competed in the 1908 Olympic games. He took part in discus,
javelin, pole vaulting and standing high jump, and competed in the AAA Hammer throw competition
from 1905 to 1914. During WWI, Flaxman served as a Second Lieutenant with the 1/6 th South
Staffordshire regiment. Because he could throw a grenade up to 75 yards thanks to his discus and
hammer throwing skills, he chose to lead the battalion of bombers at the battle of the Somme. He
was shot and killed on 1 st July 1916, aged 36. He was never brought back to Wombwell, so his body
remains in France. His family grave is in Wombwell, with his name remembered on the weathering
stone.
Frank Collindridge J.P. C.B.E
Frank Collindridge was an M.P. for the Barnsley Labour Party between 1936 and 1951. In 1945 to
1946 he was Lord of the Treasury for the Labour government, and between 1946 and 1951 he was
Comptroller of the Household to H.M. King George VI.