BORN HULL 19/01/1881. SON OF GEORGE & MARY ANN BLANCHARD, OF 8 CLIFTON TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET. HIS WIFE ADA & 5 CHILDREN, LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A TRAWLER, TRIMMER. LOST AT SEA, ON 18/01/1918, AGED 37. HIS ONLY OTHER BROTHER, WILLIAM BALNSHARD (1871-1915) WAS LOST ON THE TRAWLER, 'SABINA', ON 21/05/1915, AGED 43. THEY LEFT […]
Ship Skipper
4 FLINTON GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
18/01/1918
Aged
47
BORN HULL 14/01/1871. ONLY SON OF THOMAS SAYERS AND MARTHA KITCHIN. HE MARRIED KATE BURNHAM AT SCULCOATES, HULL IN 1899. SERVED WITH DISTINCTION IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS (DSC). WAS SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER 'GAMBRI', WHICH STRUCK A MINE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, ON THE 18/01/1918, WITH THE LOSS OF 21 […]
