BORN HULL 11/2/1872. HULL PAL. ONLY SON OF SAMUEL BLAKESTONE & SARAH ANN FOSTER, OF 3, HULL’S PLACE, OSBOURNE STREET, HULL. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS THAT LIVED IN HULL. WORKED AS A SHIP’S FIREMAN AND SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE FOR FIVE YEARS.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 25/9/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, 13/11/1916, AGED 44.
HE LEFT WIDOW MAY ANN BLAKESTONE (BORN 19/11/1861), OF 8 NORMANDY TERRACE, ST PAUL’S STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 5 CRESCENT PLACE, WALKER STREET, HULL. THEY HAD NO CHILDREN. HIS WIDOW RECEIVED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 15 SHILLINGS, ON 9TH JULY 1917.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE SAMUEL BLAKESTONE 12/605. Born Hull, 1872 Samuel was one of seven children but the only surviving son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Blakestone. A Fireman by trade he married Mary Ann Allen at Hull Registry Office on 11th February 1898. They lived at 8 Normandy Terrace, St. Paul’s Street, Fountain Road, Hull and had no children. Samuel enlisted at City Hall on 25th September 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. Following a posting to Egypt over Christmas 1915, the Pals landed in France early the following March and went into the trenches of the Western Front soon after. Samuel was killed in action on 13th November 1916 at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 44 years old.
