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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. William Blair
British Army 2nd Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
(d.30th Oct 1914)
Pte. William Blair MID.
British Army 5th Btn . Cameron Highlanders
from:Crieff
(d.16th Jul 1916)
William Blair was Mentioned in Dispatches 31st of May 1915. He died of wounds on the 16th of July 1916.
T/Lt. Alfred Joseph William Blake
British Army 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers
from:Dublin
(d.21st Aug 1915)
Alfred Blake was the son of the late Mr. S. C. Blake, M.D. He was killed in action in Gallipoli aged 35 and is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Turkey and at St. John the Baptist Church of Ireland in Clontarf.
Gnr. Bertram George Blake
British Army C Bty. 70th (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Bournemouth
(d.4th Nov 1916)
Pte. Charles George Blake
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
Private Blake died on 13th February 1919 and is buried In the North-East part of the Tuam New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Sgt. Charles Albert Blake
Royal Navy Royal Marine light Infantry
from:Wimborne, Dorset
Charles Blake was my great grandfather. He was born in Stenning in 1897. He served with the Royal Marines Light Infantry for the duration of WW1 seeing many fronts. He married Vyvyan Agnes Maud Aynsworth Allen in Dec 1920 and they moved to Wimborne where Charles worked as a steam roller driver, they had 4 children.
In 1939 he is shown on a local electoral register as being a Sgt with the 5th Battalion, Dorset Regiment a partial service number is visible 5721... Any further information on this second military career will be gratefully received.
Mjr. E. A. C. Blake
Army Durham Light Infantry
(d.10 Feb 1919)
2nd Lt. Francis William Blake MC.
British Army 19th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.31st Oct 1918)
Francis William Blake served at a 2nd Lieutenant with the 19th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He was aged 25 when he died on 31st October 1918. Born and living Jarrow, he was the son of William John and Agnes Blake (Thompson) of 23 Hill Street Jarrow, where he is recorded as living on the 1911 census, aged 18, his occupation is given as Baker.
Francis is buried in Vichte Military Cemetery and he is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Drvr. Frederick James Blake
British Army 173 Brigade, A Ă‚Â Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
Driver Frederick Blake was the son of William and Mary Blake, 134 Downsell Road, Stratford, London. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France, Panel 7-10.
Pte. George W. Blake
British Army 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment
(d.15th December 1914)
Pte Harry Douglas Blake
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Woodford
(d.8th Dec 1915)
Harry Douglas Blake was the Son of Dr Edwin Henry and Adeline Maude Blake, of The Cottage, Sible Hedingham, Essex. He was a day boy at Bancrofts and grew up in a household with his mother and father and older brother Gerald and younger sister Irene. His uncle was also an Old Bancroftian and veteran of the Boer War – Dr P R Blake. He was also the cousin and close friend of Robert Dunham Tibbs - Harry’s mother being Robert Tibbs’ aunt. The boys were the same age and would spend time in each other’s houses in their youth. Harry lived with his family at ‘Hillside’ Stag lane, Buckhurst Hill. It was here that his father died in 1906. At school Harry played inside right for the school’s football eleven achieving his colours in in the 1908-9 season. Harry was also a reasonable middle order batsman for the cricket first eleven and capable swimmer in the annual inter-house swimming contests. His chief interest however was Athletics where he was with the likes of Leonard Alfred Whillier on the committee organising the annual games. The Spring of 1909 brought several athletic laurels. First he was victorious in the crosscountry race for his House that took its course from the school through the forest to High Beech and back. Then came the Athletics Championship on Saturday May 8th 1909. As the Bancroftian reported. No mean feat, all competed for on the same day in the kit of the Edwardian boy athlete. We are fortunate indeed to have these triumphs and particularly that of his second place in the Mile (Open) immortalised on film. Otherwise Harry played his full part in the school, appearing in plays such as the Merchant of Venice where he played Salanio the friend of Antonio - Frederick Stephen Boshell and Bassanio - Percy Montague Phillips. That same year 1909 Harry passed his matriculation in the Second Division and left school for a job in the City. Mother and sister Irene were to move to Eastbourne where they opened a guest house.
On the outbreak of war Harry enlisted straight away in the 10th battalion the Royal Fusiliers which was called the ‘Stockbrokers battalion’ as it was predominantly made up of new recruits from the City professions. They initially mustered in the Colchester area as part of Kitchener’s New Army then in the following Spring in the midst of training transferred to Salisbury Plain. So full of talent was the battalion, that questions were asked in the House of Commons suggesting it be used as a reserve from which young officers could be commissioned en masse to make good the officer losses of 1914. The battalion’s main strength landed at Boulogne and Harry with them on the 31st July 1915, concentrating around Tilques, near St Omer. From September to the end of 1915 elements of the Battalion were put into the line in the vicinity of Foncquevillers (Funky Villas as it became known to the British Tommy). The village overlooked the German lines around the village of Gommecourt that would feature so heavily in the fighting of the 1st July 1916 on the opening day of the Somme battle. The work was arduous and dangerous, repairing trenches, hewing timber from nearby woodland, digging out trenches constantly as the increasingly wet weather caused them to subside and the intermittent shelling blew them apart. In the front line or in the service trenches which led to them snipers kept up a desultory fire picking off those too exposed for safety. It was here as December closed in Harry met his end. Not as far as can be told in a large planned assault upon the enemy, not on a sprint between the lines taking full advantage of his athletic prowess but in the wet and mud on the 8th December 1915. That his body was recovered suggests his being hit by a sniper’s bullet or lethal shrapnel. His uncle hearing the news wrote to his old school.
Pte. James Blake
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.28th Apr 1916)
James Blake was the son of James Blake, of 20, Fingall St., Dublin. He died of wounds and is buried in Lillers Communal Cemetery.
Pte. James Blake
British Army 8th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Salisbury, Wiltshire
(d.21st March 1918)
James Blake previously enlisted on 22nd of July 1901, 18 days after his 17th birthday and served in the Wiltshire Regiment. After several years service he returned to civilian life as a builder's labourer in his home town of Salisbury. He remained on the reserve list and at the outbreak of WW1 he was called up in August 1914, joining the RAMC. He was shipped out to the front immediately and saw engagement in the Retreat from Mons within the same month.
His role as a stretcher bearer took him into the front lines of all major battles for the next three and half years. His last leave home was a few days in January 1918 when he was reunited with his wife Jennie and daughters Hilda 7, Edna 4 and Phyllis who had been born July 1916. He was racked with bronchitis but insisted on returning to the front to allow the other boys their turn for leave.
Only weeks after, on the 21st March, Jim was killed in action during the first day of 'Operation Michael' when for the first time the German Army launched their new tactic that opened their attack directly on the centres of command as opposed to the front line - no doubt the field ambulances where all at the back expecting to move forward after the first strike...
There is no known grave for James Blake, the grandfather that his 5 grandchildren never knew - but we have found him commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais. His name can still be found on the War Memorial in the town centre of Salisbury (my mother Hilda, then aged 9, was on the platform wearing his medal on the day it was opened by the town's dignitaries) and his name can also be found in the RAMC's Golden Book of Remembrance that is kept close to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey.
Pte. John Blake
British Army 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.10th Mar 1915)
Pte. John Blake
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Chatham, Kent
(d.14th Sep 1943)
Jack Blake died on 14th of September 1943.
L/Sgt. John Horace Blake
British Army 1st Btn Sherwood Foresters
from:Hucknall, Notts
(d.19th September 1915)
Jack Blake served with the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters.
Pte. Reginald "Jo" Blake
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Harwich, Essex.
(d.21st Apr 1917)
Pte. Thomas Blake
British Army 1st Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
from:43 Slaidburn, St Kings Rd, Chelsea
(d.21st Oct 1914)
Rflmn. William Peter Blake
British Army 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Islington
(d.22nd June 1915)
When going through my father's estate in 2007, I discovered a death penny in honour of William Blake. I'm quite sure that my father was interested in the penny and purchased it in Windsor, Ontario for its interest and historical significance. It seemed appropriate to include his name in your archives.
Cpl. George Ivor Blakeborough MM.
British Army 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Harrogate
Cpl. George Ivor Blakeborough MM.
British Army 9th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Harrogate
Corporal George Blakeborough served with the 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.
L/Cpl. Stanley Blakeborough
British Army 11th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Harrogate
(d.13th Oct 1917)
Stanley Blakeborough died in the Battle of Passchendaele, his name is on the memorial wall of Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
Stokr. Edward Blakeley
Royal Navy HMS Natal
from:Middlesbrough
(d.30th December 1915)
When Edward Blakeley was born in 1896 in Yorkshire, his father, Edward, was 30 and his mother, Ellen, was 26. He had two brothers and eight sisters. He died on 30th of December 1915 at the age of 19, aboard HMS Natal. Natal was sunk by an internal explosion near Cromarty with the loss of at least 390 crewmen and civilians. The remains of her wreck are designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 as a war grave.
Pte. Ernest Blakeley
British Army 1st Btn. King's (Liverpool) Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.21st Dec 1914)
Ernest Blakeley was born in Cardiff, he was the Husband of E. J. Blakeley, of 13, Bloomfield Park, South Circular Rd., Dublin. He enlisted in Warrington Ernest died age 27 in France and is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery.
Pte. Thomas William Blakelock
British Army 1st Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:380 Hackney Road, London E2
Pte. George Blakeman
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 19th & 18th & 14th DLI
Sgt. Hubert Harold Blakeman
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Wellington, Shropshire
(d.30th December 1917)
L/Cpl. Richard Leonard Blakeman DCM.
British Army 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
from:Thickbroom Cottages, Weeford, Lichfield, Staffs
Richard Blakeman was my Grandfather and served during The Great War from 5th November 1914, when he would have been just 19 Years old and was discharged injured on 8th June 1917. According to information I have from my Aunt he rescued two comrades at The Battle of Neuve Chappell. I have very little other information of my Grandfather but do have his DCM which bears his rank name and Service Number, it seems for his bravery he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
I have searched Ancestry.co.uk
records but only have basic information and cannot find any record of his DCM award other than the fact I have the medal in my possession. It would be lovely to find out more.
Editors Note: Medal awards are listed in the London Gazette, which will give you the date of the action.
Gnr. Robert Blakeman MM
British Army 102nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Ashorne, Warwickshire
Pte. Denis Jetson Blakemore
British Army 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Shrewsbury,
(d.9th Jul 1917)
Denis Jetson Blakemore was executed for desertion 09/07/1917 age 28, and buried in Locre Hospice Cemetery in Belgium. he was the son of George L. and Sophia Blakemore, of 3, St. George's St., Mountfields, Shrewsbury. Native of Bicton, Shrewsbury.
Blakemore was the son of the headmaster of Bicton school near Shrewsbury. He initially served in Ireland and then travelled with his battalion to France in 1916. At least two of his brothers also served in the First World War. At 5.40 am on 7th June 1917 he was reported missing as his unit formed up to attack. He was discovered hiding in a shell hole in the rear of the assembly trenches and then formed up, but later was found again to be missing. At his trial he pleaded not guilty and simply said he was too upset to go on with his section. Having previously been found guilty of being absent without leave, and been given a suspended sentence of 15 years penal servitude, a death sentence was almost inevitable. A guilty verdict was recorded and in the early hours of 9th July Denis Blakemore's life came to a sad end.
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