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Lt. Cecil Francis Blacker
British Army 2nd Btn. Connaught Rangers
(d.6th September 1914)
Cecil Blacker was the Son of Major F.H. Blacker. At the start of WW1 he was severely wounded at the Battle of Mons on the 23rd of August 1914 and evacuated to Netley Hospital in England but died from his wounds on the 6th September 1914. The hospital has a military cemetery within the grounds, but Cecil was brought back to Ireland for burial. He was aged 25 when he died and is buried in the South-East part of the Naas (Mauldings, or St. Magdalen's) Protestant Cemetery, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
R. St. John Blacker-Douglass MC.
British Army 1st Battalion Irish Guards
from:Dublin
(d.1st Feb 1915)
St.John Blacker-Douglass was the son of Maxwell V. Blacker-Douglass, of Seafield, Millbrook, Jersey. He was killed in action age 22 and is buried in Cuinchy Communal Cemetery.
Lt. G. E. Blackett
Army Durham Light Infantry
Lt. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Royal Navy HMS Barham
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett fought in the Battle of the Falklands in 1914 serving with the Royal Navy. In August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I Blackett was assigned to active service as a midshipman. He was transferred to the Cape Verde Islands on HMS Carnarvon and was present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. He was then transferred to HMS Barham and saw much action at the Battle of Jutland.
While on HMS Barham, Blackett was co-inventor of a gunnery device on which the Admiralty took out a patent. In 1916 he applied to join the RNAS but his application was refused. In October that year he became a sub-lieutenant on HMS P17 on Dover patrol, and in July 1917 he was posted to HMS Sturgeon in the Harwich Force under Admiral Tyrwhitt. Blackett was particularly concerned by the poor quality of gunnery in the force compared with that of the enemy and of his own previous experience, and started to read science textbooks. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1918, but had decided to leave the Navy.
Cpl. Thomas Blackett
British Army 7th Btn. Green Howards
from:Sunderland
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Blackett was born in 1896 to Richard William Blackett and Frances Ellen Stonehouse. In the 1911 census he is listed as a pony driver in a pit. He joined up and died on the first day of of Battle of the Somme during the capture of Fricourt. He is believed to be buried in a mass grave at Fricourt British cemetery and he is listed on the Ryhope war memorial.
Pte. W. Blackett
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Chester-leStreet
Pte. George Arthur Blackhall
British Army 14th (Pioneers) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Morpeth
(d.21st August 1918)
George Blackhall died of wounds in a German military hospital. He wass buried in Asfeld German Military Cemetery and later reburied in Sissonne British Military Cemetery. Sadly missed but always remembered.
2nd Lt. Clarence Blackham
British Army Leicestershire Regiment
from:Ambergate, Toadmore
Clarence Blackham first served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps (service no. C12199). He was promoted on 30th October 1917 to 2nd Lieutenant with the Leicestershire Regiment. Announced London Gazette Supplement 29 November 1917, 12499. No regimental No. or record of service known for Leicestershire Regiment
His record can be seen on the Crich Parish Roll of Honour website: http://www.crichparish-ww1.co.uk/ww1webpages/blackhamclarence.html.
Pte Victor Charles Blackham
British Army 1st Btn Dorsetshire Regiment
Pte. Frank Blackhurst
British Army 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Wood Heath Farm, Lower Withington, Chelford, Cheshire
(d.7th June 1917)
Frank Blackhurst was one of five Blackhurst brothers who fought in WW1. He and his brother Fred didn't return home, his three other brothers did.
Pte. John Blacklock
British Army 6th (Perthshire) Btn. The Black Watch
from:Deanston Perthshire
(d.23rd Apr 1917)
I was researching the family tree recently and found out the John who is my maternal great grand father was killed in action in Arras on 23/04/1917. If anyone can give me any more info on him I would appreciate it.
Sgt. Thomas Edward Blacklock MM.
British Army 9th Battalion Border Regiment
from:Lamplugh
Thomas Edward Blacklock, born 3rd Nov 1894, was my father, he was known as Ted. He signed up in 1914 at a recruiting meeting held in the Lamplugh Murton Assembly Rooms with seven other former pupils of Lamplugh Parochial School all volunteering for military service. He was aged 19. The recruits were motored to Whitehaven for a medical examination by Mr George Dickinson, Red How Lamplugh. Ater passing the examination Ted was assigned into the 9th Borders as a private. After training he crossed over to France along with many other Cumbrian 'Lads'. He spoke very little about his life in France putting me off by saying I really did not want to know what 'it' was like. [I did!] I found some information when I discovered papers and letters that had been kept by my grandmother. One stated
"Regret to inform you that on 12th Oct 1915 Thos. Ed. Blacklock 9/14980 is in an isolation hospital at Etables, France suffering 'Enteric (severe)'" and in November 1915 another states he was admitted to the Royal Herbert Hospital Woolwich suffering from 'not known'â€. He also suffered from lupus and had facial disfigurement which remained with him for the rest of his life. After recovery he returned to the 29th Division, Border Regiment but to a different unit. He was unable to join his former border comrades as they had by then moved to another theatre of war.
By April 1918 he was still serving in the 29th Division but had been sent to join the 1st Battalion of the Border Regt. It was then that he became engaged in the Battle of the Lys near Vieux Bequin. I understand in this Battle he helped to capture a German gun which can now be seen in the Border Regimental Museum in Carlisle Castle. For brave actions his commanding officer Capt. A/Lt Col J Forbes-Robertson was awarded the Victoria Cross and my father, now Sgt. Thomas E. Blacklock No.14980 was awarded the Military Medal.
I have in my possession some letters sent home to his parents which tell and refer to some of the above information and about conditions and life etc. I have used these to discover some of the above story.
Pte. A Blackman
British Army 24th Btn. London Regiment
from:London
(d.5th September 1918)
L/Cpl. Arthur Blackman
British Army 7th Btn. Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment
from:12 Red Lion Lane, Farnham, Surrey
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
Arthur Blackman served with the 7th Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment and died on 23rd March 1918 aged 39.
Pte George Ebenezer Blackman
British Army 23rd Battalion London Regiment
Pte. John Blackman
British Army 1st/5th Btn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
from:Bromley Common, London
(d.16th October 1918)
Private Blackman was the husband of E. L. Nye (formerly Blackman), of 124 Magpie Hall Lane, Bromley Common, London.
He was 36 when he died and is buried in Poonamallee Cemetery in India, Row 33, Grave 688.
Pte. Leslie Crompton Blackman
Australian Imperial Forces D Coy. 5th Battalion
from:Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
(d.29th Jun 1916)
L?Cpl. Sidney Jacob Blackman
British Army 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire
(d.11th April 1917)
Sidney Blackman joined up in September 1916. He took part in the Battle of Arras but wounded on the first day, 9th of April 1917. He was taken to a casualty clearing station where he succumbed to his wounds on 11th April. He was aged 27 years old.
Pte Arthur James Cyril Blackmore
British Army 1st/6th Glos. Regiment
from:St. George, Bristol
(d.29th May 1915)
Pte. Arthur James Cyril Blackmore
British Army 6th Btn., 7th Pltn., B Coy. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.29th May 1915)
Arthur James Cyril Blackmore was born at 3, Northcote Road, St. George, Bristol on Saturday 10th. November 1894, the fourth son and the sixth of eleven children born to Frederick Charles and Augusta Susan Wesley Blackmore (nee Smith) and fourth youngest brother of Frank Wesley Blackmore. The 1911 Census shows the family had moved to 125, Beaufort Road St. George with Arthur being employed as a machine hand in a local chocolate factory (probably Packers like his brother Frank). He was well known in the east Bristol area being a member of the Redfield Wednesday Bowling Club and the St. Matthews (Moorfields) Bible Class and a keen player in its football team.
Arthur volunteered for service on Sunday 1st November 1914 (3 months after the outbreak of the War) at the Bristol Colston Hall having met the same physical criteria as those in the Regular Army.
Family myth has it that Arthurs platoon was digging trenches at Le Gheer, nr. Ploegsteert, Belgium on 29th May, and he allegedly struck a large stone with his entrenching tool thus alerting the attention of a German sniper who then shot him dead. Conversely a newspaper cutting stated that Arthur had sent a letter to his father Frederick Blackmore on the 30th May 1915 (a day after his reported death) saying that he was 'all right and was going into the trenches that night'. The same evening the paper reported he met his death under shell fire. This contradicts both the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's records that he was killed on Saturday 29th. May and not 30th. May, and also the Blackmore myth about him being killed by a sniper's bullet. However, the majority of battalion war diaries used figures compiled a day or two after the action, frequently by a junior officer who was more concerned with ascertaining how many men were fit for duty and were not subsequently corrected for the (often large number of) men who had been killed.
However, the more accurate version of Arthurs death was as a result of the Germans blowing a mine in front of the Gloucesters lines at 8.15 p.m. on the night of the 29th May 1915 followed by an artillery bombardment by the enemy. The resulting crater extended from the edge of their wire into No Man's Land. Mines in those days were a novelty and this occurrence drew crowds of red-hatted spectators to view the crater. Following the mining attack, strenuous efforts were made by both sides to gain possession of the crater, which could be put to effective use as a new forward listening post. The enemy was found to be adept in gaining an advantage from their mining activities and it was thought that they might do so again so at dusk two parties from the Glosters, each under a subaltern, were ordered to seize and consolidate the crater.
The two parties of Glosters, stood behind the trench's breastworks waiting for cloud cover to obscure the moon before tentatively working their way through the barbed wire and into the darkness beyond, armed with Mills Bombs that they had just been supplied with for the first time and rifles with bayonets fixed. Arthur's party was half way across No-Man's Land when a German machine gun opened up causing a few casualties as they set out to reinforce their side of the crater but were driven off by the combined Gloster consolidating parties who carried out their task successfully, throwing bombs (grenades) at the enemy as they retreated. Arthur's skirmishing party was led by 7 Platoon Commander, 2nd Lieutenant Wilfrid Henry Young, age 26, who was seriously wounded during the action and died the next day; he was the first officer of the Battalion to be killed in the war.
During the attack on the advancing German's, Arthur was shot and died seconds later, suffering very little. Also killed in the fighting were 2433 Private Percy Baker, age 26 - also of B Company and 2601 Private Henry Pope, age 19. All four were temporarily buried in a recently consecrated field next to the medical dressing station that had previously been the East Lancashire Regiment's HQ. This was sited just off the Ploegsteeert Road that troops used to move between their billets in the hamlet of Le Gheer and the front line and well established beyond the furthest range of the German artillery. Two days later the 4th and 6th Glosters greatly improved the bomb crater and named it 'Bristol Trench' after their home city. This sort of construction work was mostly done at night and in the open with the parties hoping that they would not be detected and exposed to machine gun fire from the German's 'Birdcage'.
Arthurs body would have been recovered by a burial detail and his corpse searched, and ID tag and papers taken for means of identification to enable them to report his name and location to a senior officer before his burial. Personal affects found on his body comprised a small quantity of money amounting to £3.9s.10d which was subsequently forwarded to his parents on 2nd October 1915. His temporary grave was given a rough wooden battlefield cross, with his name, army number and unit painted on it although this erroneously had an initial 'E' instead of an 'A' painted on it. After the Armistice, the 'Directorate of Graves Registration & Enquiries', a military organisation, had the responsibility to complete the work of securing the sites of battlefield cemeteries or isolated graves and recording their locations.
At the War's end Arthur's body was exhumed from its temporary grave and transferred to the newly constructed Lancashire Cottage Cemetery which is located 8 miles south of Ieper (Ypres). The name of this area and of the nearby wood, is actually Ploegsteert, but to those Tommies who served there during the Great War it jokingly became better known as Plugstreet. Despite the Ploegsteert sector being somewhat quieter than some others, with no famous set-piece battles, a summary of the battalions losses for May was written up in their War Diary on 1st June, viz, "During May the weather, with the exception of one wet week, has been good. Strength of Battalion is 3 Officers and 118 other ranks below establishment. Casualties - Officers 1 Killed and 1 Wounded. Other ranks 14 Killed and 45 Wounded."
Sgt Bernard Blackmore
British Army 1st/4th Glos. Regiment
from:Clevedon, Somerset
Prior to WW1 Bernard served in the 2nd. (Wessex) Field Company Royal Engineers but at the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted on 1st. September 1914 in Bristol as 2432 Private, 1st/4th Btn. Glos. Regiment. By 1915 he had attained the rank of 200538 Sergeant in the same Battalion. He was seriously wounded on 22nd August 1916 during the assault on the Leipzig Redoubt. His injuries were so serious that he never returned to active service.
Sapper Charles Henry Claude "Claude" Blackmore
British Army 150th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:East Down, Devon
(d.30th Sep 1918)
Charles Henry Claude Blackmore was the son of Frederick Charles and Alice Blackmore who were farmers. He was one of 9 children. He served as a Sapper in the 150th Company Royal Engineers in both France and Belgium. He died of his wounds on the 30th September 1918 at a clearing station near Ypres and is buried in Haringhe Cemetery, Bandaghem, Belgium. He was was 22 years old.
All through my childhood he was spoken of, by my Grandmother Melvina Annie Blanche Manning (nee Blackmore), as he was her much loved younger brother. All his sisters had a poster-sized framed photograph of him on their walls. They were very proud of him but also very sad that he died so young. As far as I know no one ever managed to find out where he was buried.
Last year I started looking for him and had great difficulty as there seemed to be no trace of him. This was probably because we were looking in records for Claude Blackmore the name he preferred to be known as, and not the correct name he enlisted by.
Having discovered our mistake it was relatively plain sailing after this and in May 2015 my husband and I travelled to Belgium to visit his grave at the Military Cemetery of Haringhe in Belgium. It was a very moving experience and one none of us will forget.
2nd Lt. Ewart Gladstone Blackmore
British Army 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:St. George, Bristol
Ewart Gladstone Blackmore was born on Saturday 21st May 1898 at 3, Northcote Road, St. George, Gloucestershire and was one of eleven children born to Frederick Charles and Augusta Susan Wesley Blackmore (nee Smith); he was christened on Wednesday 7th February 1900 at St. George The Martyr, St. George, Bristol.
Because of the need for junior officers in the Great War it was routine during war-time for men to be selected to attend Officer Cadet Units or Officer Cadet Schools. Ewart would have been compulsorily conscripted on or about his 18th birthday and would have trained as a recruit. He must have shown leadership potential enabling his commanding officer to put his name forward for officer selection. As a private soldier becoming an officer he would have been struck off the strength of his original unit and added to the officer strength of his new unit. There is no record of the unit that Ewart had originally served in before being selected for officer training. The London Gazette of 19th April 1918 listed Ewart as being appointed a Second-Lieutenant from an Officer Cadet Unit with effect from 27th March 1918 and joined up with the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (Territorial Force) on 3rd October 1918. He was subsequently seconded to the 6th Battalion Wiltshires for recruiting and reconstruction purposes following huge losses it had sustained during the fighting in France and Flanders where it was reduced to cadre strength.
On the 27th of September Ewart, along with 151 Other Ranks, left England to join the Battalion, eventually joining up with them on 3rd October 1918 at the Divisional Reception Camp near Villers-Guislain in time for the planned assault on the Beaurevoir Line; Battalion HQ was based at Kitchen Crater. Ewart and the Wiltshires pushed on and occupied part of the Hindenburg Line at Rancourt Farm with the 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment on the left, the 33rd Division on the right and the 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment in support. The 64th Infantry Brigade was holding the front line at Montecouvez Farm. The Wiltshires took up a position east of the farm for an attack on an enemy position in the Beaurevoir Line. The companies were to rendezvous on the eastern edge of the Rancourt Copse at 22.45 hrs. Owing to it being a very dark night and the amount of barbed wire to be passed through, the rendezvous was not completed until 23.30 hrs. The companies then moved off in column of route with increased distances via the tracks and roads and sunken roads. Due to the darkness and state of roads and other traffic the companies did not reach the predetermined point until 00.45 hrs. They were formed up as follows - Front Line - C Company on the right, D company on the left. Support Line - A Company on the right, B Company on the left.
On the 7th October Ewart was involved with the attack on the Beaurevoir Line following a heavy bombardment by the Allied artillery. The casualties taken by the 1st Wiltshires in the assault were 2 Officers and 11 Other Ranks killed; 3 Officers and 78 Other Ranks wounded and Other Ranks Missing 2. Captures comprised 81 enemy Other Ranks, one T.M.B. (Trench Mortar Battery) and two Machine Guns. On the 23rd October the Wiltshires prepared themselves for their night attack on Ovillers situated on the left of the Albert-Bapaume Road which was one of the front line villages held by the Germans, situated on a spur which gave it an excellent view over the British lines. On the opposite side of the valley stood La Boiselle, It was another equally heavily fortified village that commanded the north side of what was called 'Mash Valley'. This attack was a phase of the Battles of the German Hindenburg Line.
The Wiltshires succeeded in taking all of its objectives and held them until 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regt and 62nd Infantry Brigade went through to capture further objectives. The Wiltshire Regiment casualties during the attack were
Officers Killed; 2nd Lieuts H R Palmer, H B Cooper. Other Ranks 23 Wounded Officers: Lieut.W.J.E Ross, 2nd Lieuts E.G. Blackmore and H. Aston.
Other Ranks 120. Missing Officers Nil. The Battalions War Diary states that Ewart suffered a gunshot wound to the left eye and after first receiving attention at the Regimental Aid Post and then the Advanced Dressing Station, the was sent to the 34 Casualty Clearing Station at Grevillers on the 24th October. A day later he was admitted to the officers surgical ward at No.3 General Hospital at Le Treport roughly 20 miles north east of Dieppe.
Ewarts case was clearly more serious than the CCS could attend to so was sent to No.3 General Hospital at le Treport. He was evacuated to England on 5th November aboard the Hospital Ship Carisbrook Castle. She had previously been used as a troop ship in the Boer War and regularly sailed in the Cape mail service for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Line during peacetime. The Carisbrook Castle would have docked at Southampton with being Ewart transported by train to Bristol Temple Meads Station before being transferred to the 2nd Southern Area Military Hospital (the Bristol Royal Infirmary) for rehabilitation. Before he was discharged the Armistice was signed by the warring factions so Ewart was never to see active service again.
2nd Lt. Frank Wesley Blackmore
British Army 4th Btn. Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:St George, Bristol
In their edition of 28th November 1917 the London Gazette announced that as at 31st October 1917 Frank Blackmore had been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment from his Officer Cadet Unit, which entitled him to the princely wage of 7s. 6d. per day. 3rd Btn. Sussex Regiment was a depot/training unit and remained in the UK throughout the war. During his officer training he contracted influenza due to strain and exposure, causing him to complain of "general weakness, coughing and night sweats". The Medical Board's Report on 29th August 1918 indicated that he had become anaemic and had lost weight; there was also a patch of "tubular breathing below clavicle on left side". Tubular breathing could be recognised by placing the the stethoscope over the trachea and listening to the patient as they breathe in and out with mouth open. What you would hear is a "tubular" sound similar to air being blown through a tube.
As there had not been any noticeable improvement in his health, Frank was instructed to report back for duty with his regiment. He had by then been gazetted to the 4th (Reserve) Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment which had been formed as the 4th/4th Battalion (Terriorial Force) in July 1915 at Croydon before moving to Windsor and Purfleet. On 8th April 1916 it became the 4th (Reserve) Battalion and moved to Crowborough, East Sussex where it remained until October 1916. Then it moved to Tunbridge Wells where it remained as part of the Home Counties Reserve Brigade of the Territorial Force. They were responsible for the training of new recruits and of men returning to duty after being in medical care or away for any other reasons. They were often called "The Mutton Lancers" due to their lamb and flag cap badge. Presumably Frank was no longer considered fit for active front line service because of his medical record and was thus given the responsibility of assisting in the training of the men in his battalion.
Pte. Frank Wesley Blackmore
British Army No. 6 Stationary Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps
from:St. George, Bristol
Frank Blackmore was born at 14 Worrall Road, Clifton, on Saturday July 19th 1890. He was the son of Frederick Charles and Augusta Susan Wesley Blackmore (nee Smith), who were lodging there at the time. He was later educated at Summerhill Council School, St. George, Bristol and by 1911 was working as a clerk in Packers, a local chocolate factory in Greenbank. He enlisted in Bristol on Monday 8th February 1915. At the time he was still living with his parents at 'Fillwood', 334 Church Road, St. George, Bristol.
His medical records show that Frank was 24 years 6 months of age, 5 feet 8 inches tall with a 35 1/2 inch chest. He was appointed Private 52165 in the Royal Army Medical Corps and would be paid 1s. 2d. per day. He was sent to Llandrindod Wells, Wales in April 1915 for two anti-typhoid inoculations and to commence his basic training. Before being posted abroad Frank received additional proficiency pay of 4d. per day as from 11th May 1915. He was to land in Le Havre, France on Wednesday 9th June 1915 with No. 6 Stationary Hospital, RAMC, part of the British Expeditionary Force along with Lieutenant A. Jamieson and other volunteers who were placed in No. 6 Ward.
On 25th February 1917 he applied to join the infantry and was sent to No. 16 Officer Training Battalion at Kimnel, North Wales. In their 28th November 1917 edition the London Gazette announced that as of 31st October 1917 Frank Blackmore had been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. He was later to be attached to 4th (Reserve) Battalion, "The Queen's" Royal West Surrey Regiment. He never saw active service again and was demobilized on Saturday 22nd March 1919.
Pte. Handel Richard Blackmore
British Army No. 9 Casualty Clearing Station Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Failsworth, Lancashire
Handel Richard Blackmore was born on Monday 21st November 1887 at 44 Drury Lane, Chadderton, Lancashire. He was the son of Walter Henry and Lydia Rachel Blackmore (née Farvis), brother to William Walter Blackmore, and first cousin once removed to Frederick Charles Blackmore and second cousin to Frank Wesley Blackmore. As a boy he had worked as a Cotton Mule Piecer (they had to lean over the spinning-machine to repair the broken threads) and later as a Cotton Spinner Operative. In 1911 Handel was living with his widowed mother Lydia at 750 Oldham Road, Failsworth, Lancashire.
During the war, Handel was assigned to the Royal Army Medical Corps as Private 42554 and was sent to France on 23rd December 1914. Unfortunately Handel's service papers were burnt in the WWII Blitz but based upon other soldiers' service numbers which appear in the same sequence it is fairly safe to assume that Handel enlisted on 23rd October 1914 and served in No.9 Casualty Clearing Station.
The unit left Southampton on 21st December 1914 on board the SS Georgian that arrived at Le Havre at 3 a.m. Handel served with No. 9 Casualty Clearing Station at Lycée, St. Omer and Lillers. Along with No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, No. 9 left for Italy on 1st November as part of the Third Army, British Expeditionary Force.
Handel Richard Blackmore survived the war and was subsequently discharged on 17th March 1919 but placed in 'Z' reserve in case the war should recommence. After the war he worked as a self-employed Draper and died in June 1966 in Middleton, Lancashire fifteen months after his wife Ada had passed away.
2nd Eng. James Blackmore
Mercantile Marine SS Rhineland
from:Dublin
(d.11th Nov 1915)
James Blackmore was the son of George and Sophia Blackmore, of 33, Tritonville Rd., Sandymount, Dublin. He was killed at sea by a mine aged 38 and is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial in London.
2nd.Hand. John Blackmore
HM Trawler James Seckar Royal Naval Reserve
from:Dublin
(d.25th Sep 1917)
John Blackmore was the son of Samuel and Susannah Blackmore, of Dublin and husband of Bella Blackmore, of 1 Crofton Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. He was drowned in the loss of his vessel in Atlantic age 52 and is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Pte. Duncan Blackstock
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.31st June 1915)
Duncan Blackstock served with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots in France 1915. He is buried in Ration Farm Military Cemetery.
Albert Christie Blackwell
British Army 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire& Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:High Wycombe
In the 1911 census my grandfather, Bertie Blackwell was based at Shorncliffe Camp, Elham, Kent. He enlisted with the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. During WW1 he served as a navigator with the Army Flying Corps before being shot through the foot. I believe he was invalided out to the North Staffordshire Regiment.
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