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BLACKMAN, Edward
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 4750 |
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Enlisted: | 5 February 1917, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Smithfield, South Australia, Australia, 14 October 1898 |
Home Town: | Smithfield, Playford, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Locomotive Cleaner, South Australian Railways |
Died: | Killed in Action, Dernancourt, France, 5 April 1918, aged 19 years |
Cemetery: |
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot X, Row G, Grave No. 6), France, Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernancourt, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, S.A.R. Engineering Branch Midland System Roll of Honour, Smithfield Honor Roll WW1, Smithfield War Memorial |
Biography
Son of Alfred Robert BLACKMAN and Ellen Mary nee McGEE
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1889 - 1931) Monday 29 April 1918
DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE
BLACKMAN.—Killed in action in France April 5, Edward (Ted) Blackman, aged 19 years, son of the late Alfred Robert Blackman of Smithfield. His duty nobly done.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5549055 (nla.gov.au)