Battle of the Somme soldier laid to rest with full military honours, A British soldier dead in activity in the Aboriginal World War is getting laid to blow with abounding aggressive honours about 100 years afterwards he died.
Sergeant David Harkness Blakey, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was dead age-old 26 on the aboriginal day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.
In November 2013 - 97 years afterwards he died - his charcoal were begin during a alley addition activity abreast Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval, arctic France.
A metal character tag with 18634 Sgt David Harkness Blakey MM of the R Innis Fus categorical on it accepted his identity, forth with the analysis of an R Innis Fus cap badge.
Identifying collapsed Aboriginal World War soldiers is attenuate as tags were frequently fabricated from cardboard or aeroembolism fibres, which rapidly decomposed.
Army chiefs said Gateshead-born, affiliated father-of-three Sgt Blakey is alone the fifth soldier in 10 years to be articular application claimed items.
An address to trace his ancestors endure year resulted in a amount getting begin in the North East, and some ancestors associates will appear Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval for the reburial.
Led by the Rev Robert Birnie, abbey of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment, the account will apprehend a composition accounting by Sgt Blakey's ancestor in anamnesis of his son.
Born in Felling, Gateshead, on November 9, 1889 to atramentous miner Henry Blakey and his additional wife Isabella, Sgt Blakey became a miner at Stargate Colliery abreast Ryton afterwards abrogation school.
After marrying Sarah Kendall in October 1908, they acclimatized in her home boondocks of Winlaton. They had a son, Henry, who was dead in account in 1940, and two daughters, Vivian Winifred, and Isabella.
A accomplished rugby player, Sgt Blakey enlisted in January 1915 in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, which ran a alternation of application adverts in the Gateshead press.
By 1916, Sgt Blakey had been answer to the rank of sergeant, confined with D Company, 11th Battalion.
On the aboriginal day of the Battle of the Somme, the army formed allotment of the 109 Brigade of the 36th Ulster Division and accumulated at the bend of Thiepval Wood.
Sgt Blakey was a part of array who died that day. And in consecutive belletrist to his wife, it emerged he had endure been apparent actively blood-soaked in No Man's Land.
He was posthumously awarded the Aggressive Medal for "bravery in the field", according to a commendation in the London Gazette of December 14, 1916.
During a concert organised by the Winlaton Welcome Home Committee in August 1917, the adornment was affianced to the chest of Sgt Blakey's seven-year-old son.
Sergeant David Harkness Blakey, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was dead age-old 26 on the aboriginal day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.
In November 2013 - 97 years afterwards he died - his charcoal were begin during a alley addition activity abreast Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval, arctic France.
A metal character tag with 18634 Sgt David Harkness Blakey MM of the R Innis Fus categorical on it accepted his identity, forth with the analysis of an R Innis Fus cap badge.
Identifying collapsed Aboriginal World War soldiers is attenuate as tags were frequently fabricated from cardboard or aeroembolism fibres, which rapidly decomposed.
Army chiefs said Gateshead-born, affiliated father-of-three Sgt Blakey is alone the fifth soldier in 10 years to be articular application claimed items.
An address to trace his ancestors endure year resulted in a amount getting begin in the North East, and some ancestors associates will appear Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval for the reburial.
Led by the Rev Robert Birnie, abbey of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment, the account will apprehend a composition accounting by Sgt Blakey's ancestor in anamnesis of his son.
Born in Felling, Gateshead, on November 9, 1889 to atramentous miner Henry Blakey and his additional wife Isabella, Sgt Blakey became a miner at Stargate Colliery abreast Ryton afterwards abrogation school.
After marrying Sarah Kendall in October 1908, they acclimatized in her home boondocks of Winlaton. They had a son, Henry, who was dead in account in 1940, and two daughters, Vivian Winifred, and Isabella.
A accomplished rugby player, Sgt Blakey enlisted in January 1915 in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, which ran a alternation of application adverts in the Gateshead press.
By 1916, Sgt Blakey had been answer to the rank of sergeant, confined with D Company, 11th Battalion.
On the aboriginal day of the Battle of the Somme, the army formed allotment of the 109 Brigade of the 36th Ulster Division and accumulated at the bend of Thiepval Wood.
Sgt Blakey was a part of array who died that day. And in consecutive belletrist to his wife, it emerged he had endure been apparent actively blood-soaked in No Man's Land.
He was posthumously awarded the Aggressive Medal for "bravery in the field", according to a commendation in the London Gazette of December 14, 1916.
During a concert organised by the Winlaton Welcome Home Committee in August 1917, the adornment was affianced to the chest of Sgt Blakey's seven-year-old son.
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