In Memory Of
BLANDFORD, LAURIE SEBASTIAN
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Rank:
Fireman and Trimmer
Unit:
S.S. Reynolds (London)
Regiment:
Merchant Navy
Date of Death:
1942-10-31
Cause of Death:
Torpedoed and sunk by U504 in the south of the Madagascar channel on 31st October 1942 on voyage New York to Karachi with "military stores". Lost with all hands, no survivors
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 86.
Cemetery:
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Additional Information
Husband of Noreen Blandford, of Spotland, Rochdale, Lancashire. Born South Africa. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45
