The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L Blanks

Private Leonard BLANKS, 240295, 1st/5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died whilst a Prisoner of War, Kut al Amara, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, death assumed on or after 30th April 1916, age 23.

Born Dartford, Kent, son of Charles & Susanna Ellen Blanks, of 13, Lowfield St., Dartford, Kent.

1911 Census - 31 St Martin Road, Dartford. Kent. - Henry Trimnell, head, age 39, married, packer, paper mills, born Dartford, Kent; Amelia Trimnell, wife, age 33, married 12 years, 1 child, still alive, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Eric Trimnell, son, age 11, school, born Dartford, Kent; Leonard Blanks, boarder, age 18, single, clerk, ironmonger, born Dartford, Kent.

Enlisted Dartford, Kent, age 22, height 5ft 11 inches, weight 150lbs. Resided 31 St Martin Road, Dartford. Kent. Formerly clerk.

Home 5th August 1914 to 28th October 1914; BEF, 29th October 1914 to 21st August 1915, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force "D", 22nd August 1915 to 30th April 1916.

6th October 1913, enlisted into 1st/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.1687; 5th August 1914, embodied into 5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th September 1914, Sandwich, Kent, agreed to serve abroad; 24th March 1915 to 11th April 1915, Jhansi Hospital, contusion, left leg; 17th August 1915, Bombay, embarked; 26th August 1915, 7th September 1915, joined Battalion in the Field; disembarked Basra; 29th April 1916, Prisoner of War, captured at Kut al Amara.

26th November 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Charles, Blanks, 13, Lowfield St., Dartford, Kent; Mother, Susanna Ellen Blanks, 13, Lowfield St., Dartford, Kent; Brothers - Reginald Blamks, age 38, 60 Lowes Way, ???; Edgar Taylor Blanks, age 36, 14 Somerset ??; Charlie Cecile Blanks, age 34, 13 Lowfield St., Dartford, Kent; Bertram Blanks, age 24, ???; Lionel Blanks, age 21, ????; Sisters - Ella May Parton, age 25, 17 High Street, ??; Beatrice Dorothy Blanks, age 24, 13 Lowfield St., Dartford, Kent.

Commemorated at Basra Memorial, Panel 29, Iraq.

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