Name
James Frank Blackmur
1873
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/11/1918
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
316188
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
Plot 14, Grave 48
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
“WE ARE LEFT TO MOURN THE ONE WE SHOULD HAVE LOVED TO SAVE WIFE AND CHILDREN”
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
James was born in 1873 in Old Ford, Bethnal Green to William & Martha Blackmur. He married Ada Jane Everitt on 8 April 1901 at St James, Upper Edmonton.
On the 1911
Census he was living with his wife and 5 children at 93 Somerset Road,
Tottenham and working as a Coachman. On enlistment his address was 8 Wharf
Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted
on 18 June 1918 at Hertford but was discharged on 4 September 1918 because of chronic
bronchitis and emphysema from which he later died. No medal records found, because he served a very short time and
died in the UK before being posted.
Additional Information
His wife Ada was born in Bishop's Stortford. Her application for a pension was refused on 24. 9.19 and although she wrote a letter on 17.10.19, no pension was paid. However, a single payment of £10 was made on 22.1.20, at which time she was living at 12 Gilpin Grove, Fore Street, Upper Edmonton. She married James Cooper in 1921 in Edmonton.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
