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GODFREY PERCY BROOK BLOOM
Kingston upon Hull HU5 1PT
England
BORN WRENINGHAM, NORFOLK, 10/12/1879. KNOWN AS "PERCY BLOOM". SON OF GEORGE BROOKS BLOOM (1841-1916) AND ADELAIDE ALEXANDER. HIS WIFE RHODA BLOOM LIVED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS & PROBATE ADDRESS. A GPO POSTMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, GREY EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR.
ENLISTED IN THE NAVY, ON 10/12/1897. SERVED 12 YEARS. RE-ENLISTED AND SERVED AS LEADING SEAMAN, ROYAL NAVY, HMS "PEMBROOK". HE DIED IN HULL, ON 23/12/1919. BURIED IN HULL.
HE LEFT £200 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, RHODA AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS.
HIS NAME IS LISTED AS PERCY BLOOM ON THE ST JOHN NEWLAND CHURCH MEMORIAL. HIS MILITARY RECORD IS UNTRACED.
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