Monday 5 January 2015

Barnsley Cemetery Ernest Calvert Blackburn



Ernest Calvert Blackburn is remembered on his family's gravestone
Links: 

War Memorials Archive listing 

War Memorials Online listing 

Photograph by Pete Schofield 



Grave Location and Inscription: 
G 67
In loving memory of  / Walter George Blackburn born August 15th1853  / Died January 14th 1895 / Also Eleanor Miles Blackburn  / wife of the above and daughter /  of the late Miles and Sarah Calvert / born July 12th 1860 died May 3rd 1908 /  Also Ernest Calvert Blackburn / L'ce Corpl. Y & L Regt. / son of the above killed in action near /  Armentieres France /  May 24th 1915 aged 24 years.

Ernest Calvert Blackburn is remembered on the St Marys Church War Memorial Barnsley

Ernest  buried in Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, France and is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission  website.





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