BLANDFORD, Charles Arnold Watson
Service Numbers: | 852, V81494 |
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Enlisted: | 16 November 1914 |
Last Rank: | Captain |
Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, 6 February 1893 |
Home Town: | Leongatha, South Gippsland, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Bairnsdale, East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia., January 1953, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Bairnsdale Public Cemetery, Victoria |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
16 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal | |
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13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Corporal, 852, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
13 Apr 1915: | Embarked Corporal, 852, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
24 Dec 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 59th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia |
World War 2 Service
14 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Captain, 22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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14 Oct 1939: | Enlisted V81494 |
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4th Light Horse Regiment, 4th Reinforcement
He is remembered on the Clontarf Cricket and Football Club Roll of Honour in County Dublin, Ireland.
Address-48 St Lawrence Road, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Next of kin
T.W. Blandford, 48 Lawrence Road, Clontarf, Country Dublin, Ireland
Enlistment date-16 November 1914
Rank on enlistment-Corporal
Age at embarkation 21.
AWM Embarkation Roll number-10/9/2
Embarkation details
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 13 April 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll-Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll-59th Battalion
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)-Mention in Despatches.
Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette', second Supplement, No. 30107, 1 June 1917; 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 169, 4 October 1917. Recommendation date: 9 March 1917.
Returned to Australia 24 December 1918.
Spouse
Enid Mabel Leask Blandford 1901–1994
Children
William Thomas Blandford 1920–2014
Thomas Blandford 1921–2003
Percy Brian Blandford 1926–2009