BORN HULL 18/09/1894. SON OF HENRY BRAND BLANSHARD (1862-1946) & ALICE HURDMAN (1862-1949), AT 4 FINSBURY GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE LIVED WITH GRANDMOTHER AND SEVEN SIBLINGS AGED 5-21 YEARS AT THIS SAME ADDRESS. EDUCATED AT PARK ROAD SCHOOL. WORKED FOR THE HULL COUNCIL SANITARY DEPARTMENT AS A GENERAL LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 04/09/1914. ARRIVED AT THE FRONT ON 21/01/1915. WOUNDED BY A SHELL AT CUINCHY, NEAR LA BASSEE. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 02/02/1915, 3.30PM, AT NO:1 FIELD HOSPITAL. HE IS BURIED AT BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY.
HIS MOTHER WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 5 SHILLINGS, ON 08/07/1918.
HE NAME IS LISTED ON PROVIDENCE ROW STREET MEMORIAL, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL.
HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME1, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
His name is listed on the Finsbury Grove, Roll of Honour, (Hull Daily Mail 29 December 1916).
HIS BROTHERS, HAROLD AND ERNEST BLANSCHARD, WHO ALSO SERVED IN WW1, DIED RELATIVELY YOUNG, BOTH IN 1926.
