BLOW, Albert Frederick

Bone Cemetery, AlgeriaCredit: CWGC

Warrant Officer Class II
2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Armoured Corps

Albert was born 1912 in Newport to Frederick & Amy (nee HAYWARD) of Spring Gardens, Gunville. He married Flavia FOX in 1937 in Aldershot & lived in Frimley, Hampshire.

Albert was wounded, aged 32, & later died of his injuries on the 26th November 1943. He was initially given a battlefield burial, but his body was exhumed & reburied in Section VII Row F Grave 1 at the Bone Cemetery in Algeria on the 27th May 1944 with 838 of his Second World War comrades.

Albert is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.