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• Name BLACKWELL
• Initials R
• First name RALPH
• Place of birth Uttoxeter
  
• Country Staffordshire, England
• Last residence Mexborough, Yorks
• Family Eldest son of Cope and Lucy Blackwell; husband of Gladys Blackwell, of 101, Wath Rd., Mexborough, Yorks; one child
  
• Profession Worked in the grocery department of Messrs. Hunter's, Uttoxeter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment May 1915, Rotherham, Yorks
• Service number L/26599
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 232nd Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery "D" Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Qualifying date 30 December 1915 to France;

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds (gas)
• Date of death 14 October 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - F - 16

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