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Military service
Service number:
LT/JX 220896
Age:
25
Rank:
Ordinary Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Naval Patrol Service
Division:
H.M. Trawler Simpson.
Birth:
May 20, 1916
McIver's, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
January 17, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. 25. Grave 505 North
Additional information
Son of Charles Edward and Dora Blanchard, of McIver's, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. Brother of Clayton, Fisher, Elsie, Alexander, Foster and Gertude Blanchard.
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Charles and Dora Blanchard, parents of Richard Warren Blanchard. -
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Warren and and Agnes Bond, his fiancé from Morcambe, Lancaster, England. They were to be married on his next leave. -
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Warren (2nd from Right) and other shipmates in Lowestoft, England. He was known as "Dick" to his shipmates. -
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On board HMS Simpson. Warren is at top. -
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Warren (left) posing with his other shipmates -
Post Card
Postcard sent to his parents encouraging them to allow his sister, Elsie to join the war. -
Ship
Ships partrolling the seas off Lowestoft. Fishermen and trawlermen primarily formed the Royal Naval Patrol Service which was moblized in August of 1939. Lowestoft was heavily bombed during the war because of their engineering industry and their role as a naval base. There is a memorial called Lowestoft Naval Memorial in Bella Vue Park. There are 2,385 names on the memorial. -
Family Photo
Leading Seaman Edward (Ted) and his wife Margaret in Morecambe. Warren and Ted became friends and Warren spent his leave with his friend's family.<P>On January 17, 1942, HMS Simpson was doing a patrol minesweep and was attacked by a German aircraft just outside base. Warren was killed and three were seriously injured. Leading Seaman Atkinson was terribly shaken as he wrote to Warren's parents. Atkinson was transferred to another ship, Night Hawk, after Warren's death. -
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The Atkinson family - their son, Albert (Age 11) and Margaret's parents. -
Original Marker
1950 -
Grave Marker
Elsie visiting the grave of her brother in 1975. <P> Inscription reads: The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.<P> The same inscription is on his father's headstone in McIver's Newfoundland. -
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Ordinary Seaman Richard Warren Blanchard
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Ordinary Seaman Richard Warren Blanchard
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Richard Warren Blanchard
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Richard Warren Blanchard
Digital gallery of
Ordinary Seaman Richard Warren Blanchard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 146 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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LOWESTOFT (NORMANSTON DRIVE) CEMETERY Suffolk, United Kingdom
During the 1914-1918 War, Lowestoft was a trawler base with a Port Mine-sweeping Officer in command; and during the 1939-1945 War, was the central Depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service, which was developed from the pre-war Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section. The cemetery was begun in 1885 and contains war graves of both world wars. The 1914-1918 burials are mainly in Plots 12, 13 and 14 on the western side. After the war, a Cross of Sacrifice was erected on an island site close to these plots, in honour of all the servicemen buried in the cemetery. Most of the 1939-1945 graves are in one or other of four War Graves Plots, three of which are in the western part of the cemetery and one to the east of the main entrance. The remainder are scattered in other parts of the cemetery. There are 95 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war. There are 122 burials of the 1939-1945 war commemorated in this site. Of these 11 are unidentified seamen of the Merchant Navy. There are 11 German war burials here and 2 non-war service burials.
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