Valentine was a gardener by trade, and in 1911 was living as a boarder at the house of Mr William Brodie, Phoenix Park Castlenock, Dublin along with Brodie and eight other young gardeners. He, along with some of his colleagues, enlisted into the RAMC during September 1914. After his training in Ireland he was sent to Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, with his unit. Valentine entered the war in the Balkans on 30th July 1915. He was taken prisoner at Gallipoli in September 1915, where he was initially interned at the POW camp at Kiangri, Turkey before being moved in early 1916 to the camp at Bilemedik-Pouzantri where he'd have been put to work on the Berlin - Baghdad railway. There was an outbreak of Typhus there between October and December 1916 with many of the victims being transferred to the POW Hospital at Angora (Ankara). It looks like Valentine was one of these many victims who died in the hospital and who were buried in the hospital cemetery. His grave was later lost. Valentine was the son of Valentine and Anne Flood; and the brother of 11202 Sjt Francis Flood, R.A.M.C. [see his profile for details]; 77138 Dvr John Flood who served with the 74th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, killed at Cambrai on 19th October 1918; and 62522 Pte James Joseph Flood who served with the 6th and 9th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, was discharged due to a gas attack in November 1916, re-enlisted into the Army Service Corps in 1918, and was discharged in 1919 after the war ended. [Information sources: CWGC, Soldiers Died, MIC, Valentine's family and Croonaert Research Services]