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257702 Stok1. Emile Gustav Blanchard Royal Navy HMS Falmouth from:Bristol (d.22 April 1941) Emile Blanchard, known as Gus was my great uncle. I never met him as he was killed in a German bombing raid on Devonport Naval Barracks on 22nd of April 1941. He was buried in Plymouth Weston Mill Cemetery. My father, Claude Johnnie Clarke, was orphaned as a child and adopted by Gus and his wife Mrs Florence ˜Dodo Blanchard (nee Wright) and my father thought of them as Ma and Pa. I attach a quote from the oldDevonport.uk website relating to the 22nd April raid: During April 1941 the Boscawen accommodation block was destroyed by a bomb, which resulted in the deaths of 113 sailors. The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, accompanied by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and Lady Nancy Astor MP, visited the barracks in May 1941 and saw the gymnasium filled with coffins and met some forty injured sailors who had survived the raid, the two groups being separated only by a low curtain. In 1961 the Royal Navy Barrack was named as a stone frigate, HMS Drake. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.