Service Details
Name:
 BLANKSBY
Given Name:
 HAROLD ROBERTSON
Initials:
 H R
Service No:
 3706
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Date of Birth:
 1885-11-05
Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 2nd SAI, who went in 400 strong, lost 16 officers and 285 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of Honourable James and Elizabeth Irvine Blanksby. Husband of Maud Blanksby, of the Mansions, West Street, Durban. Native of Sydney, Australia. Born Forest Lodge, Sydney, Australia. Educated in Australia, attended the University of Sydney, Australia, 1907-1910 (B.A.) 1911-12 (Law). Teacher at Glenwood High School, Durban. Schoolmaster at a number of Natal schools, including Hilton College. His brother Leslie Holmes Blanksby also died in service 6 March 1917
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
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Grave Reference:
 I. B. 34.

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