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Lt.Col. Charles Harold "Peter" Blackburne DSO MID
British Army attd. HQ Staff, Dublin 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)

(d.10th October 1918)
Lieutenant Colonel Blackburne was the son of the late C.E. Blackburne and Mary Blackburne; husband of Emily Beatrice Blackburne. He was drowned when the Royal Mail Steamer Leinster was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. His wife survived but two children, Beatrice Audrey and Charles Bertram, died together with a governess, Miss de Pury. He is buried in the Officer's Ground in the Kilmainham (Royal Hospital) Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.

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