Blaylock David Sapper
Personnel Entry
Name 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.
Company/Battery
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.
Source table
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.
