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Captain GEOFFREY GASKELL BLACKBURN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FRICOURT NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

C. 14.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Gaskell Blackburn, F.C.A., and Elizabeth Blackburn, of Bank House, Horsforth, Leeds. B.A. Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Buried or commemorated at

FRICOURT NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 210
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