South Yorkshire Times, May 5th 1933
Obituary
West Melton
Maurice Flavell
Widespread sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Horace Flavell, of Brampton Road, West Melton, in the death of their son, Maurice, aged 20, which occurred in a Sheffield nursing home on Friday. For five years he was a pupil at the Wath Grammar School, where he gained matriculation and Higher School certificate, and he later took the London matriculation at Sheffield, with a view to the medical profession.
He had already passed two medical examinations at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and was to have taken his first major examination in March. An illness which had lasted since Christmas, however, prevented him. He was also successful in sport. He held six trophies for swimming, and was a member of the victorious water polo team in a London Inter-Hospital contest in 1931. He was latterly secretary of the St. Bartholomew Hospital Swimming Club, and had also been a member of the Wath Swimming Club.
He was keen on rugby football and turned out for the hospital team. Flavell combined cleverness with sportsmanship, and his loss is widely felt. Members of the Old Wathonians’ Club, of which he had been a member, acted as bearers at the funeral at Brampton on Monday. The Rev. C. L. Suggit officiated.