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Sig. P. Bittleston
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Almanzora
(d.7th July 1918)
Signalman Bittleston is buried in the Santos (Filosofia) Cemetery in Brazil.
Sig. P. Bittleston
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Almanzora
(d.7th July 1918)
Signalman P. Bittleston was buried in the Santos (Filosofia) Cemetery in Brazil, Grave VI. A. 677.
Rflmn. Charles Bixby
British Army 17th Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
(d.19th Dec 1916)
Lt John Richard "Jack" Blabey
British Army 17th Btn King's Liverpool Regiment
from:The Priory, Watergate Lane, Woolton, Liverpool
Jack Blabey was my maternal grandfather. In 1914, he was an upper sixth former at Liverpool College, where he had served in the Officers' Training Corps from 1911, reaching the rank of Corporal OTC. Along with OTC colleagues, Jack volunteered on 1914-08-28, at Lord Derby's invitation to form a 'Battalion of Pals'. Such was the uptake that three Battalions of Liverpool Pals (the first of the Pals Battalions) were provided for on that day.
Jack, however, was under-age, as the Attestation age for active service was 18 years and 6 months. However, Jack's name was taken and, in October, Jack received his papers to attend for duty.
By then, the first three Battalions were provided for, so he enlisted into the 20th Battalion - the '4th City Pals'.
The Pals Battalions spent months acquiring soldierly skills, and were short of officers. As OTC members, Jack and his colleagues knew much and were deemed to have officer-lie qualities. He was trained and commissioned into the 17th Battalion (1st City Pals) as a Second Lieutenant, KLR in February 1915.
Training of the Liverpool Pals Brigade was completed at Knowsley, Belton Park and Larkhill, before the Brigade was deployed to France, in the Somme sector, in November 1915.
The Liverpool Pals served with distinction in the Battle of the Somme, achieving their objectives on the first day, seizing the village of Montauban, with the 17th, 19th and 20th Battalions suffering relatively few casualties.
The 18th Btn suffered heavy casualties and required refitting before further service. Later in the battle, the Liverpool Pals were back in action, in an attempt to move forwards and take the village of Gillemonte, attacking over open ground and with German machine gunners firing from an enfilade on the left. As the attack progressed on 30th July, Jack suffered a serious head wound, when a German machine gunner sighted his platoon moving. Fortunately, he had his helmet pushed back as he scanned the horizon with his binoculars and his Brodie helmet stopped the bullet; however several shards of the helmet, which shattered, pierced the back of Jack's skull and knocked him out. He was found by his soldiers and recovered back to a field hospital, from where he was evacuated for a series of operations, over the next three months, to remove most of the shrapnel.
Jack was pronounced medically fit for active service in April 1917 and, in view of the seriousness of his wound, sent to a quiet front - the Macedonian Front, at Salonika. This was far from quiet, however, and Jack fought with the 14th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, including the action around Doiran and was wounded, once more, on active service, and also caught malaria. He was hospitalised and evacuated back to Britain, in August 1918.
In view of his injuries and malaria, Jack was no longer fit for overseas service, so was sent to help training with the 3rd Battalion KLR, then posted to their barracks in Cork.
So, while his First World War was over, he soon became tied up with the Anglo-Irish War, in which he lost two friends - but that is another story. Jack was demobbed in 1919, retaining his rank as Lieutenant.
Sister. Black
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Pte. A. Black
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. Archibald Black
British Army 8th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
from:Dunblane - Perth - Scotland
(d.14th Jul 1916)
Archie Black was born in Stirling on 20th April 1894, son of Peter and Christina Black (nee McEwen) of Boquhan Cottages, Kippen Station. Peter was a ploughman. They had six children including: Catherine S. Black (b. 1892) Archibald Black (b. 1894) John McEwen Black (b. 1896) Peter Black (b. 1907) Christina McEwen Black (b. 1908). He was a member of the church, and a church elder at Dunblane, Perthshire.
Archie enlisted at Dunblane in January 1915 as Private, S/7532, 8th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) and went to France on 2nd June 1915. He was wounded, spending time in Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. He was killed during the attack on and capture of, Longueval on 14th July 1916, aged 22. Archie is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and is also commemorated on Dunblane War Memorial.
The Stirling Observer and Perthshire Herald of the 4th August 1917 reported his death: "Official notification has now been received by Peter Black, The Bield, and formerly of Greenyards, Dunblane, that his son, Private Archibald Black, of the Black Watch, who was reported wounded and missing on July 14th 1916, is now presumed to have been killed on that date. Private Black, who was 22 years of age, was prior to enlisting, employed by Mr Bain, Inch of Leckie by whom he was held in great respect. He joined the Army in January of 1915 and in May of the same year he went to France, taking part in the Somme offensive. He was known to have been severely wounded then, but every effort to trace him has been of no avail, and he is now believed to have died from his injuries. Another son of Mr Black's is serving in the Black Watch."
David Black
British Army Army Cyclist Corps
from:Accrington Lancs
Going through documents etc from my wife's late grandfather I have come across some photos of past relatives. Two are of a David King of Brinscall Lancashire Station Road Lancs who was in the Cyclist Corps but I can find no trace of him online.
Editor's Note: For the Cyclist Corps, records are difficult. Started out pre-war with 4 Cycling Battalions then formed Cyclist Companies in most infantry regiments, then grouped into larger battalions all of whom became members of the Cycling Corps but still served in their various units. Regrettably no trace in Ancestry search. Would need to know originating regiment from which became a Cyclist. An educated guess might be one of the originating units - Northern Cyclist Battalion as he was from Accrington, but by no means certain.
Pte. Edward Black
British Army 9th (Service) Battalion Devonshire Regiment
(d.7th May 1917)
Pte. Edward Black was born in Dublin and Enlisted in Portsmouth. He served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment and was killed in action in May 1917.
Sgt. George Harold Black MM, DCM.
British Army 2nd Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Cheltnam
George Black MM, DCM served with the 2nd Welsh Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps.
Pte. Harold E. Black
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 78th Btn.
from:Canada
(d.19th Nov 1917)
Harold Black died of wounds received at Passchendaele on 19th of November 1917, aged 23 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery.
Harold was the youngest son of William Boyes and Sarah Black of Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. Harold emigrated to Canada in 1910 to join his other five brothers. He enlisted in 1915 and shipped to France in the same year. His brother Gordon, a Captain with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, was at his side when he died. He subsequently wrote to relatives in Ballycastle this short remembrance of HaroldĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s passing
"Ah, it breaks my heart to have to write on a subject like this. We little thought in the days of long ago he would be the first to be taken. His loss is just as fresh in my mind as ever- it is a picture I cannot erase, go where I will, do what I may. Still we must not forget the manner of his living, or the splendid example he showed in dying with such calm content in the knowledge of duty well and nobly done."
Pte. James Black
British Army 6th Btn Cameron Highlanders
from:Port William, Wigtownshire
(d.24th April 1917)
James Black was working at the London Home of the Marquis of Ripon at the time of his enlistment.
He is remembered on a Memorial in St Mary's Church Studley Royal, Ripon, the main home of the Marquis of Ripon.
Pte. John Arthur Black
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Loughborough
(d.19th December 1915)
Rflmn. John Black
British Army 12th (Mid Ulster) Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Ballintoy
(d.1st July 1915)
Sgt Lewis Younie Black
British Army 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Lewis Younie Black died on Saturday 1st of July 1916 aged 21, whilst serving with the 20th Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers. Son of Christina and William Black of Jarrow (native of Scotland) he was born in 1894 in Jarrow. On the 1911 census, he is recorded as Lewis Younie Black age 17, Apprentice Carpenter in Shipyard is with his widowed mother Christina Black and family at 4 Wylam Street, Jarrow. He enlisted in Newcastle.
Lewis is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Myer Black
British Army 11th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Myer Black served with the 11th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment during ww1 and died on the 13th November 1916. He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France.
Pte. Peter Black
British Army 1/4th Btn. Black Watch
(d.18th Sep 1916)
Peter Black served with the Black Watch 1/4th Btn. He was executed for desertion on18th September 1916 and is buried in Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France. He already had a suspended sentence of death for desertion when he went missing a second time just before going into action. His absence lasted for a month and, after Court Martial, he was shot on 18th September 1916 near the border between France and Belgium.
Sjt. R. Black
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Samuel Black
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
(d.15th Mar 1918)
Pte. Thomas Black
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.12th May 1915)
Thomas Black was lost in fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He was aged 22, son of the late Thomas and Agnes Fields Black. Thomas is remembered in Ypres at the Menin Gate.
Rfmn. William Black
British Army 1st Btn. B Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dunmurry, Co, Antrim Belfast
(d.13th Oct 1918)
William Black was first buried in the German Military Cemetery at Deerlyck, later his grave was moved to Dadizele New British Cemetery, where only a remembrance stone remains as the original grave is missing. He may have been a Prisoner of War because on the date he died Deerlyck was still occupied by the German Army.
Gnr. William Crosbie Black MM, DCM.
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Liverpool
William Black was my grandfather. He was born in Ramelton in Donegal Ireland in 1880. He was a sailor in the Mercantile Marine. He was mobilised into the Lancashire Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery on 25th of May 1915. He received a hand written duplicate letter requiring to report to the Sefton Barracks in Upper Warwick Street together with a detailed list of personal supplies and clothing to which he would receive a gratuity of Ā£5 on reporting for duty.
He served until 12th January 1919. He was awarded the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred War Medals, but also awarded the DCM and Military Medal. There is a Certificate for the Gallant Act he carried out to receive the Military Medal whilst serving with the Second Army. He also received a Mercantile Marine Medal from the Board of Trade.
In WW2 he was a Quarter Master on the Reina Del Pacifico, owned by the PSNC, which was converted into troopship. He was 59 when WW2 started. He was in many theatres of the War which included the Second Battle of Tobruk and the Invasion of Sicily. He was awarded the Africa Star with Clasp, Atlantic Star, Italy Star, Pacific Star and Burma Star. In the Honours List announced on 9th January 1946 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service. He ended his service on SS Orbita when his Sea Service and his War Service Certificate was issued on 29th May 1947 when he was 67.
He was a much loved father and grandfather, and died aged 82 in 1962.
Cpl Gilbert Brown Ritchie Blackadder
British Army 12th Btn Highland Light Infantry
from:Midlothian
(d.25th September 1915)
Gilbert Blackadder served with the 12th Battalion Highland Light Infantry in WW1. He died 25th of September 1915 aged 26 years and is remembered on the Loos Memorial. Son of Mary B. R. Blackadder of Craigenterrie, Currie, Midlothian and the late William Blackadder.
Rflmn. Thomas Blackadder
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.24th March 1917)
Pte George Blackbird
British Army 1st Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wallsend
Spr. A. Blackburn
Army Royal Engineers
Pte. Alfred Blackburn
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Spr. Frederick Blackburn
British Army 431st Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Pendleton
(d.26th Jul 1917)
Sgt. Herbert Blackburn
British Army Northumbrian Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Middlesbrough
(d.7th Aug 1917)
My great uncle Sgt. Herbert Blackburn served with the Royal Garrison Artillery Northumbrian Heavy Battery and died of wounds on 7th August 1917. I am trying to locate where he is buried.
Pte. J. Blackburn
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blyth
J. Blacknburn was wounded in October 1916
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