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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Blaylock David
|Army number=1953828
|Rank=Sapper
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death) 21.
|Unit=Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Served Normandy. KILLED in ACTION 13/4/1945, aged 21.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 13/4/1945. Initially interred in Westervoort, Holland at map reference 781754 on Sheet 6 1/25,000. Re-buried at Uden War Cemetery - Grave reference 2. E. 7. Headstone inscription reads "WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER. SAVED BY GRACE".
|Home address=Son of Robert and Lilian Mary Blaylock of Swindon, Wiltshire.
|Image Name=Sapper_Blaylock.jpg
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone Uden War Cemetery - Sapper David Blaylock.
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

Thanks are due to the "Find a Grave" Website for the image of Sapper Blaylock's headstone.

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