Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Harold Blackburne, DSO
5th Dragoon Guards [Princess Charlotte's Own]
attached to H.Q. Staff, Dublin.
(This was then based in The Royal Hospital).
He fought in the Boer War in South Africa, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order Medal. He retired later, but was called up at the start of World War 1, joining the military staff.
Aged 42.
Third son of the late Charles Edward Blackburne and Mary Blackburne, née Riley, of Dryclough, Oldham
Husband of Emily Beatrice née Jones Blackburne, who were married at St. Paul's Church, Durban, South Africa, on 10 February 1903.
Father of
a daughter, b. 8 Nov. 1903, d. 19 Nov. 1903, South Africa
Beatrice Audrey Blackburne, b. 29 June 1907, at Liverpool, Lancashire
Charles Bertram "Peter" Blackburne, b. 15 Sept. 191, at Mold, Flintshire
He had decided to attend a Staff Course in Cambridge, with a view to obtaining a permanent appointment after the War.
He and his wife and children were on board the RMS Leinster when it was hit by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
His wife Emily survived.
He and his two children were seen alive in the water, but they subsequently drowned.
His body, and that of his son were recovered.
The bodies of his daughter and her governess
Rose De Pury
were never recovered.
His older brother
Major John George Blackburne
died at Gallipoli, in World War 1.
Emily Blackburne is believed to have remarried, and died in London during the Second World War.
The following has been taken from a a document commemorating Soldiers from Mold, Flintshire, who died in WW1
"In summary, Charles was born in 1876, the third of four sons born to Charles Edward Blackburne and his wife Mary (nee Riley). The family background was comfortable and middle class. His father died when Charles was just eighteen months old and the mother made a home for her and the boys in Hastings. She remarried in 1881 a William Shadforth Bodger and a daughter was born in 1885.
Charles was not an academic. His great lifelong passion was horses and he became an expert on breeding, training and managing horses. He was an adventurer and spent more than a year travelling in Canada and Alaska. He tried his hand at farming but eventually joined the army and served in the Boer War. It was in this conflict that he was decorated. He stayed on in South Africa after the war and he married his long time sweetheart Emily Beatrice Jones (known as Bee) in 1903 and they began their life together in South Africa. Their first child, a daughter, lived for only 11 days. There followed two more children, Audrey Beatrice was born in 1907 and Charles Bertram (Peter) was born in 1911.
After leaving South Africa, Charles bought ‘Tyddyn’ a house on the Wrexham Road just outside Mold. This family home enabled him to carry out his business affairs in Liverpool (He supplied horses and carriages) and enjoy his country pursuits such as hunting, fishing and shooting.
When the First World War began, he rejoined the army and fought in France. He was wounded badly in the shoulder in 1915 and could take no further active part in the conflict. He was given a staff position in the army in Ireland and he moved his family to Dublin to live with him there. He was in Ireland when the Irish Rebellion of 1916 took place. In October 1918, he was to due attend a Staff course in Cambridge, England and his wife Bee and their two children Audrey and Peter and their French Governess all traveled with him. They were passengers on Royal Mail Ship Leinster sailing from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) to Holyhead. The ship was hit three times by torpedoes fired by a German submarine, UB 123. 527 people were drowned including Charles, both children and the French Governess. Bee survived. (The U Boat 123 was destroyed nine days later after running into a mine barrage that lay between Norway and Scotland. All on board were lost)."
His brother Lionel Blackburne produced a very interesting memoir on him
https://archive.org/details/charleslieutcolo00blac/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
Charles Harold Blackburne, DSO
5th Dragoon Guards [Princess Charlotte's Own]
attached to H.Q. Staff, Dublin.
(This was then based in The Royal Hospital).
He fought in the Boer War in South Africa, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order Medal. He retired later, but was called up at the start of World War 1, joining the military staff.
Aged 42.
Third son of the late Charles Edward Blackburne and Mary Blackburne, née Riley, of Dryclough, Oldham
Husband of Emily Beatrice née Jones Blackburne, who were married at St. Paul's Church, Durban, South Africa, on 10 February 1903.
Father of
a daughter, b. 8 Nov. 1903, d. 19 Nov. 1903, South Africa
Beatrice Audrey Blackburne, b. 29 June 1907, at Liverpool, Lancashire
Charles Bertram "Peter" Blackburne, b. 15 Sept. 191, at Mold, Flintshire
He had decided to attend a Staff Course in Cambridge, with a view to obtaining a permanent appointment after the War.
He and his wife and children were on board the RMS Leinster when it was hit by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
His wife Emily survived.
He and his two children were seen alive in the water, but they subsequently drowned.
His body, and that of his son were recovered.
The bodies of his daughter and her governess
Rose De Pury
were never recovered.
His older brother
Major John George Blackburne
died at Gallipoli, in World War 1.
Emily Blackburne is believed to have remarried, and died in London during the Second World War.
The following has been taken from a a document commemorating Soldiers from Mold, Flintshire, who died in WW1
"In summary, Charles was born in 1876, the third of four sons born to Charles Edward Blackburne and his wife Mary (nee Riley). The family background was comfortable and middle class. His father died when Charles was just eighteen months old and the mother made a home for her and the boys in Hastings. She remarried in 1881 a William Shadforth Bodger and a daughter was born in 1885.
Charles was not an academic. His great lifelong passion was horses and he became an expert on breeding, training and managing horses. He was an adventurer and spent more than a year travelling in Canada and Alaska. He tried his hand at farming but eventually joined the army and served in the Boer War. It was in this conflict that he was decorated. He stayed on in South Africa after the war and he married his long time sweetheart Emily Beatrice Jones (known as Bee) in 1903 and they began their life together in South Africa. Their first child, a daughter, lived for only 11 days. There followed two more children, Audrey Beatrice was born in 1907 and Charles Bertram (Peter) was born in 1911.
After leaving South Africa, Charles bought ‘Tyddyn’ a house on the Wrexham Road just outside Mold. This family home enabled him to carry out his business affairs in Liverpool (He supplied horses and carriages) and enjoy his country pursuits such as hunting, fishing and shooting.
When the First World War began, he rejoined the army and fought in France. He was wounded badly in the shoulder in 1915 and could take no further active part in the conflict. He was given a staff position in the army in Ireland and he moved his family to Dublin to live with him there. He was in Ireland when the Irish Rebellion of 1916 took place. In October 1918, he was to due attend a Staff course in Cambridge, England and his wife Bee and their two children Audrey and Peter and their French Governess all traveled with him. They were passengers on Royal Mail Ship Leinster sailing from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) to Holyhead. The ship was hit three times by torpedoes fired by a German submarine, UB 123. 527 people were drowned including Charles, both children and the French Governess. Bee survived. (The U Boat 123 was destroyed nine days later after running into a mine barrage that lay between Norway and Scotland. All on board were lost)."
His brother Lionel Blackburne produced a very interesting memoir on him
https://archive.org/details/charleslieutcolo00blac/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Harold Blackburne, DSO
5th Dragoon Guards [Princess Charlotte's Own]
attached to H.Q. Staff, Dublin.
(This was then based in The Royal Hospital).
He fought in the Boer War in South Africa, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order Medal. He retired later, but was called up at the start of World War 1, joining the military staff.
Aged 42.
Third son of the late Charles Edward Blackburne and Mary Blackburne, née Riley, of Dryclough, Oldham
Husband of Emily Beatrice née Jones Blackburne, who were married at St. Paul's Church, Durban, South Africa, on 10 February 1903.
Father of
a daughter, b. 8 Nov. 1903, d. 19 Nov. 1903, South Africa
Beatrice Audrey Blackburne, b. 29 June 1907, at Liverpool, Lancashire
Charles Bertram "Peter" Blackburne, b. 15 Sept. 191, at Mold, Flintshire
He had decided to attend a Staff Course in Cambridge, with a view to obtaining a permanent appointment after the War.
He and his wife and children were on board the RMS Leinster when it was hit by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
His wife Emily survived.
He and his two children were seen alive in the water, but they subsequently drowned.
His body, and that of his son were recovered.
The bodies of his daughter and her governess
Rose De Pury
were never recovered.
His older brother
Major John George Blackburne
died at Gallipoli, in World War 1.
Emily Blackburne is believed to have remarried, and died in London during the Second World War.
The following has been taken from a a document commemorating Soldiers from Mold, Flintshire, who died in WW1
"In summary, Charles was born in 1876, the third of four sons born to Charles Edward Blackburne and his wife Mary (nee Riley). The family background was comfortable and middle class. His father died when Charles was just eighteen months old and the mother made a home for her and the boys in Hastings. She remarried in 1881 a William Shadforth Bodger and a daughter was born in 1885.
Charles was not an academic. His great lifelong passion was horses and he became an expert on breeding, training and managing horses. He was an adventurer and spent more than a year travelling in Canada and Alaska. He tried his hand at farming but eventually joined the army and served in the Boer War. It was in this conflict that he was decorated. He stayed on in South Africa after the war and he married his long time sweetheart Emily Beatrice Jones (known as Bee) in 1903 and they began their life together in South Africa. Their first child, a daughter, lived for only 11 days. There followed two more children, Audrey Beatrice was born in 1907 and Charles Bertram (Peter) was born in 1911.
After leaving South Africa, Charles bought ‘Tyddyn’ a house on the Wrexham Road just outside Mold. This family home enabled him to carry out his business affairs in Liverpool (He supplied horses and carriages) and enjoy his country pursuits such as hunting, fishing and shooting.
When the First World War began, he rejoined the army and fought in France. He was wounded badly in the shoulder in 1915 and could take no further active part in the conflict. He was given a staff position in the army in Ireland and he moved his family to Dublin to live with him there. He was in Ireland when the Irish Rebellion of 1916 took place. In October 1918, he was to due attend a Staff course in Cambridge, England and his wife Bee and their two children Audrey and Peter and their French Governess all traveled with him. They were passengers on Royal Mail Ship Leinster sailing from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) to Holyhead. The ship was hit three times by torpedoes fired by a German submarine, UB 123. 527 people were drowned including Charles, both children and the French Governess. Bee survived. (The U Boat 123 was destroyed nine days later after running into a mine barrage that lay between Norway and Scotland. All on board were lost)."
His brother Lionel Blackburne produced a very interesting memoir on him
https://archive.org/details/charleslieutcolo00blac/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
Charles Harold Blackburne, DSO
5th Dragoon Guards [Princess Charlotte's Own]
attached to H.Q. Staff, Dublin.
(This was then based in The Royal Hospital).
He fought in the Boer War in South Africa, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order Medal. He retired later, but was called up at the start of World War 1, joining the military staff.
Aged 42.
Third son of the late Charles Edward Blackburne and Mary Blackburne, née Riley, of Dryclough, Oldham
Husband of Emily Beatrice née Jones Blackburne, who were married at St. Paul's Church, Durban, South Africa, on 10 February 1903.
Father of
a daughter, b. 8 Nov. 1903, d. 19 Nov. 1903, South Africa
Beatrice Audrey Blackburne, b. 29 June 1907, at Liverpool, Lancashire
Charles Bertram "Peter" Blackburne, b. 15 Sept. 191, at Mold, Flintshire
He had decided to attend a Staff Course in Cambridge, with a view to obtaining a permanent appointment after the War.
He and his wife and children were on board the RMS Leinster when it was hit by torpedoes in the Irish Sea, whilst enroute from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Holyhead, Wales, on the morning of 10th October 1918.
His wife Emily survived.
He and his two children were seen alive in the water, but they subsequently drowned.
His body, and that of his son were recovered.
The bodies of his daughter and her governess
Rose De Pury
were never recovered.
His older brother
Major John George Blackburne
died at Gallipoli, in World War 1.
Emily Blackburne is believed to have remarried, and died in London during the Second World War.
The following has been taken from a a document commemorating Soldiers from Mold, Flintshire, who died in WW1
"In summary, Charles was born in 1876, the third of four sons born to Charles Edward Blackburne and his wife Mary (nee Riley). The family background was comfortable and middle class. His father died when Charles was just eighteen months old and the mother made a home for her and the boys in Hastings. She remarried in 1881 a William Shadforth Bodger and a daughter was born in 1885.
Charles was not an academic. His great lifelong passion was horses and he became an expert on breeding, training and managing horses. He was an adventurer and spent more than a year travelling in Canada and Alaska. He tried his hand at farming but eventually joined the army and served in the Boer War. It was in this conflict that he was decorated. He stayed on in South Africa after the war and he married his long time sweetheart Emily Beatrice Jones (known as Bee) in 1903 and they began their life together in South Africa. Their first child, a daughter, lived for only 11 days. There followed two more children, Audrey Beatrice was born in 1907 and Charles Bertram (Peter) was born in 1911.
After leaving South Africa, Charles bought ‘Tyddyn’ a house on the Wrexham Road just outside Mold. This family home enabled him to carry out his business affairs in Liverpool (He supplied horses and carriages) and enjoy his country pursuits such as hunting, fishing and shooting.
When the First World War began, he rejoined the army and fought in France. He was wounded badly in the shoulder in 1915 and could take no further active part in the conflict. He was given a staff position in the army in Ireland and he moved his family to Dublin to live with him there. He was in Ireland when the Irish Rebellion of 1916 took place. In October 1918, he was to due attend a Staff course in Cambridge, England and his wife Bee and their two children Audrey and Peter and their French Governess all traveled with him. They were passengers on Royal Mail Ship Leinster sailing from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) to Holyhead. The ship was hit three times by torpedoes fired by a German submarine, UB 123. 527 people were drowned including Charles, both children and the French Governess. Bee survived. (The U Boat 123 was destroyed nine days later after running into a mine barrage that lay between Norway and Scotland. All on board were lost)."
His brother Lionel Blackburne produced a very interesting memoir on him
https://archive.org/details/charleslieutcolo00blac/page/n5/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
His name is included in
R.M.S. Leinster Casualties A - H
Inscription
front panel.
Lt. Col. CHARLES HAROLD BLACKBURNE
5th Dragoon Guards
born 20th May 1876
and of CHARLES BERTRAM (PETER) his son
born 15th Sept. 1911
who are both buried here
also BEATRICE AUDREY his daughter
born 24th June 1907
all of who lost their lives in the sinking of
R.M.S. Leinster by a german submarine 10th Oct. 1918.
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God will give you to
me again with joy and
gladness forever
E.B.B.
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