BORN HULL 1874. SON OF EMILY HORNE, OF 11, PEMBERTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WIFE GERTRUDE & 5 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 6, HOLBORN MOUNT, HOLBORN STREET, HULL. ENLISTED AT HULL CITY HALL, SEPTEMBER 1914. SERVED WITH THE HULL PALS, IN EGYPT & FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS, 11/08/1916, AGED 41.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JAMES JOHN BLAIN 12/904. Born in October 1874, James was the third of seven children to John and Emily Blain. A Grocer’s Assistant by trade, he married Gertrude Turner in December 1898 and the couple lived at 6, Holborn Mount, Holborn Street, Hull with their five children – Henry, Elsie, Bernard, Leslie and Maud. When war came James enlisted straight away, joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. He served in Egypt from late 1915 to March the following year when the Pals landed in Marseilles and caught the train north to the trenches of the Western Front. James Blain was mortally wounded and died on 11th August 1916. He is buried in St. Vaast Military Cemetery; he was 41 years old. His death left five motherless children.
