BLAKEMAN Albert Victor

  • First Name(s):
    Albert 
    Victor 
  • Surname:
    BLAKEMAN
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    South Staffordshire Regiment
  • Unit:
    Attached to 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
  • Former Units:
    Formerly Sergeant 786, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    7th October 1918
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bellicourt British Cemetery, France, Grave V. K. 1.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Ann Blakeman, of Birmingham

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

BLAKEMAN Albert Victor Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove St John the Baptist Church WW1 Memorial

Further Information About BLAKEMAN Albert Victor

Albert Blakeman was the son of Thomas Henry and Mary Ann Blakeman.  In 1911 he resided at Witton Road, Aston and gave his occupation as a button manufacturer.  Albert went to France 21st November 1915.

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger, 20th October 1917:
Information has been received by Mr H E Blakeman, Willow Mead, Willow Road, Bromsgrove, that his brother Second-Lieutenant Albert V Blakeman, South Staffordshire Regiment, has been admitted to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds in the thigh. Lieutenant Blakeman’s parents reside at Aston and before the war he was employed at Messrs B Saunders and Son, the Button Works, Bromsgrove.  Two of his older brothers have been killed in the war and Lieutenant Blakeman himself, who joined as a Private and quickly gained promotion, has been previously wounded in the arm.  He was awarded a commission early in the present summer and after training went out again in July.

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