George BLANDFORD

BLANDFORD, George

Service Number: 3459
Enlisted: 7 July 1915, Bendigo, Vic.
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 67th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born: Morwell, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town: Huntly, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Memorials: Huntly Garden of Remembrance, Huntly Memorial Hall Honor Roll
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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Brothers:

Ernest Henry Blandford 1438, KIA 12 June 1901 Boer War;

Charles Walter Blandford 5657, 59th Btn, KIA 12 December 1916

Thomas Blandford 3681, 57th Btn, KIA 9 May 1917.

George Blandford (youngest and only son remaining alive) was discharged from the AIF on compassionate grounds and at the request of the Shire of Huntly, Vic.