BORN BEVERLEY 1886. SON OF JOHN HENRY BLAYDON (1856-1929) & MARY HANNAH SHARP (1862-1904) OF HESSLE AND HULL. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER MRS SMITH AT THIS ADDRESS. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. SERVED TEN YEARS IN INDIA. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 01/05/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 29. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER JOHN, AND SISTER LILLIAN.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL 29TH JUNE 1915. *
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE ALSO REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 14TH OCTOBER 1915. *
HIS BROTHER, ERNEST BLADON, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 15/06/1915. ANOTHER BROTHER, FRED BLADON, DIED OF WOUNDS ON 26/06/1919. HIS REMAINING BROTHER, GEORGE BLADON, ALSO SERVED WITH THE 2ND EYR AND SURVIVED THE WAR. HE LEFT SISTERS, JANE, CHARLOTTE, LILY,ELLEN BEATRICE AND DOROTHY.
COMMEMORATED: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
