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Private JAMES BLINSTON

Service Number: 17116
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 June 1916

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CITADEL NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, FRICOURT

II. E. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Sarah Alice Blinston, of Ashton-in-Makerfield; husband of Mary Elizabeth Taylor (formerly Blinston), of 188, Chassum St., Bradford, Yorks.
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Buried or commemorated at

CITADEL NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, FRICOURT
Somme France
Number of casualties: 380
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