BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM ALLISON BLACKBOURN & EMILY HAKES, 9 FISH STREET & AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. AN IRON TELLER AT HULL DOCKS AND WORKED FOR IDEAL STANDARD BOILERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10/12/1915. JOINED 7TH EYR. TRANSFERRED TO 13TH EYR ON 10/06/1916 AND POSTED TO FRANCE ON 16/08/1816. WOUNDED ON 06/08/1916 WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BACK, SPINE AND ABDOMEN. INVALIDED TO ENGLAND ON 17/08/1916. DIED OF WOUNDS, AGED 22, AT CAMBRIDGE HOSPITAL, WITH PARENTS PRESENT. BURIED AT HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY. COMMEMORATED ON THE KINGS HALL, ROLL OF HONOUR, SYMONS STREET, HULL
HIS NAME IS ONE OF 46 EMPLOYEES LISTED WITH ON HULL’S “IDEAL BOILERS AND RADIATOR WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR”, NATIONAL AVENUE, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM HENRY BLACKBOURN 21619. Born in 1894, William was the third of seven children to William and Emily Blackbourn of 9 Fish Street, Hull. He enlisted on 10th December 1915 originally joining the 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment before being transferred to the 12th, 3rd Hull Pals, upon his arrival in France the following May. William was seriously wounded in the spine and abdomen on 6th August 1916 and after treatment in France left Calais on a hospital ship bound for Newhaven on the 17th. He survived another three months in agonies I never want to even imagine, before dying of his wounds complicated by septic pneumonia on 15th November at 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge. Records show relatives were present. William’s body was taken home to Hull for burial. He was 22 years old. Alternative Commemoration – buried in Hull General Cemetery.
