BORN HULL 22/03/1883. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS BLENKIN (1861-1909) & JANE A. FULLERTON, OF 11, TALBOT TERRACE, TOOGOOD STREET, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BROTHER TO HENRY & ELLIE. A GENERAL LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 36067, 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING, THEN KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/10/1916, AGED 33. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, JANE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL WHERE HE WAS BABTISED ON 08/04/1883
ALSO NAMED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 4TH JANUARY 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
First name:
THOMAS BLENKIN
Military Number:
36067
Rank:
Private
Date Died
18/10/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
33
