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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Blackett Rupert Henry
|Army number=45466
|Rank=Captain
|Date of birth=13/2/1911 at Matfen Hall, Northumberland.
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as a 2/Lt University Candidate 6/7/1930. Posted 2nd Bn 30/10/1939. Posted 15th Bn DLI. Posted 70th Bn DLI 31/7/1942. Posted 10th Bn DLI 12/12/1942. Normandy. Evacuated to 146 Field Ambulance 19/6/1944. Posted No 4 ITC 1/10/1944. Posted 9th Bn DLI 20/5/1945. BAOR. Retired 11/7/1948.
|Company/Battery=10th Bn Company, D Company.
|Task or role=Company Commander.
|Joined Brigade=12-Dec-42
|Promotions=T/Major 12/1/1943. Major 1/7/1946.
|Wounded=15/5/1940. 1/9/1944.
|Died/Killed in action=1/5/1992 at the age of 81. Death registered May 1992 in Northumberland West.
|Home address=Son of Hugh Douglas Blackett and Helen Katherine Blackett (nee Lowther) of Matfen Hall, Northumberland. Educated at Eton and Oxford, graduating with a BA in 1932. Married 11/1/1941 in West Hartlepool to Felicity Mary Audley Scudamore-Smith.
|Image Name=MAJOR_R_H_BLACKETT.jpg
|Image Title=Rupert Henry Blackett
|Source table=10DLI
}}

To read his entry on The Peerage Website please click [http://www.thepeerage.com/p14365.htm#i143649 here].

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