BORN HULL 1872. SON OF GEORGE & MARY ANN BLANCHARD, OF 8 CLIFTON TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET. A FISHERMAN. HIS WIFE BERTHA SIBREE MATSON, LIVED AT 89 WALCOTT STREET, HULL, WITH THEIR SEVEN CHILDREN. HE WAS SKIPPER OF THE STEAM TRAWLER ‘SABRINA’. LOST AT SEA, ON 21/05/1915, AGED 43. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS. HIS ONLY BROTHER, GEORGE BLANSCHARD, (33), TRIMMER, ON THE HMT ‘GAMBRI’ DROWNED ON 18/01/1918. HE LEFT FOUR SISTERS.
Sabrina (H 346) FV was a British registered fishing vessel of 179grt that was probably mined by the cruiser Hamburg when 160 miles ENE of Spurn Head Light Vessel.
ref. used: CREW LOST ON SABRINA (H346), struck mine, 160 miles E. N. E. of Spurn, 21st May, 1915.
ABBOTT, H (22), 47 Witty st, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
BLANCHARD, William (43), 39 Clifton-ter, Hull. Skipper
FRY, S (21), 7 Devon st, Hull. 2nd/Hand
HAMILTON, Herbert (34), Claremont-ave, Beecroft st, Hull. 3rd/Hand
JOHNSON, Arthur (15), 343 Hawthorne-ave, Hull. Deckhand
JOHNSON, John (17), 343 Hawthorne-ave, Hull. Fireman
MORRIS, William (34), 7 Trent-ave, Eastbourne st, Hull. Bosun
SHAW, J. H (48), 13 Carrington st, Hull. Chief Engineer
TUNGATE, Arthur (53), 41 Eastbourne st, Hull. Cook
Blanshard, William Ernest
First name:
WILLIAM ERNEST
Regiment:
Rank:
Ship Skipper
Date Died
21/05/1915
Place died:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK
Age:
43
