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Pte. Harry Bladon
British Army 1/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Burton on Trent
(d.1st July 1916)
In 1901 Harry was living at his sister Ann's home in Burton on Trent, together with his widowed father Leonard, and siblings Ernest, Mary and Albert. Only Harry had been born in Blackwell, Derbyshire in 1887. It seems that the family were in Blackwell for only a short time between 1881 census and 1889 when Harry's younger brother Ernest was born in Burton. Private 4425 Harry Bladon of the North Staffs. (Prince of Wales ) Regiment 1st/6th Btn, was killed in action on July 1st 1916; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.