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Private EDWARD BLACKBURN

Service Number: 58753
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

II. B1. 9.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of D. A. and Priscilla Blackburn, of Uplands, Hebden Bridge, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription "THAT, SETTING DUTY FIRST HE WENT AT ONCE AS TO A SACRAMENT"
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