In Memory Of

BLAKEWAY, WALTER LENNOX

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 4756
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 2nd Regt.
Regiment:
 South African Infantry
Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. B. 33.
Cemetery:
 BROWN'S COPSE CEMETERY, ROEUX
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of Henry McArthur Blakeway, of Marshall Street, Cambridge, East London. On Cambridge Town war memorial for 1914-18. Walter Lennox Blakeway is recorded as being one of the 3 Officers and men who were relieved at Delville Wood on 20 July 1916. He was attached to the 2nd Trench Mortar Battery and later, after being wounded on 16 December 1916 he was later KiA on 12 April 1917.