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NAME:                      Blachford, Ernest Sydney
RANK:                      Private
UNIT:                      Canadian Light Horse
BATTALION ETC:             (formerly 10th Canadian Mounted Rifles)
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         115705
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Died of wounds 29th July 1917 at No.4 Canadian Field Ambulance
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, Pas de Calais, France
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 30. Born 26th February 1886 at Eling, Southampton. Enlisted 22nd November 1915.
                           Living at Portage-la-Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.
                           Son of Augustus Arthur & Rebecca Blachford of Rushington Lane, Totton Southampton, mother a widow in 1911.
                           Brother of Augustus Claude who also died.