BORN NORTH CAVE, 1892. SON OF WILLIAM EASINGWOOD BLANSCHARD & ALICE HARMAN (1852-1936) . RESIDED NORTH CAVE. APPRENTICE JOINER. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A SAPPER IN THE LOCAL ROYAL ENGINEERS. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 18/07/1916, AGED 24. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT AN OLDER BROTHER, FRANCIS A. BLANSCHARD.
HE IS LISTED ON THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS MEMORIAL AT HULL MINSTER. HOWEVER HIS SURNAMES IN SPELT “BLANCHARD”
First name:
GEORGE WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
524
Rank:
Sapper
Date Died
18/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
24
