Name
Charles George Massie Blomfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/06/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1st Bn.
“A” Coy,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TALANA FARM CEMETERY
II.B.5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI ("It is sweet and right to die for one's country.")
UK & Other Memorials
Stevenage (Old Town) Memorial
Pre War
Charles was the son of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Massie Blomfield and Lady Rosamund Selina Massie Blomfield (Nee Graves) and the husband of Hirrel Blomfield (Nee Clarence), of South Lodge, Boscombe, Dorset.
Wartime Service
He was posted to Flanders on the 5th May 1915 and joined the Battalion on the 13th May where it was involved in fighting around Ypres. Some four weeks later whilst the Battalion was in Vlamertinghe he was killed by a sniper’s bullet.
Charles is buried in the Talana Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium.
Additional Information
Charles appears to have a commemorating inscription on a headstone in Stevenage (St. Nicholas) Churchyard.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
