BLOW, Harry

Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme France

Credit: David Theckston

Gunner

C Battery 82nd Brigade

Royal Field Artillery

Harry was born 1893 in Shide, Newport to George & Mary (nee STEPHENS) BLOW who were living at Gunville West, Carisbrooke around the time of Harry’s death. He married Mary & they lived at Rose Mount Cottages, Shide in Newport.

Harry, aged 25, was reported as Killed in Action on the 22nd of August 1918 & was originally buried close to where he fell on the battlefield. His body was later exhumed by the 119th Labour Corps & reburied at Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension on the Somme in France on the 30th of July 1919. Harry rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 497 of his First World War comrades, 36 of whom remain unidentified.

Harry is also remembered on the County 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.