Remembered

On This Day, 2 February 1915

Philip Arthur Blanshard died of wounds on this day in 1915

Philip was educated at Park Road Board School in Hull and employed with the Sanitary Department of the Hull Corporation.

In the 1911 census at age 16, Philip is listed as a general laborer living with his parents, seven siblings ages 5 to 21 and his 81 year old grandmother at 4 Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, Hull.

Hull Street Scene — A street scene in Hull

Philip enlisted on 4 September 1914 and left England for the front on 21 January 1915 to join his battalion, 2nd Coldstream Guards.

His time at the front was very brief. Philip was severely wounded in action a few days after his arrival at Cuinchy near La Bassée, and died in the 1st Field Hospital at 3:30 pm 2 February 1915

Artist rendering, the front at Cuinchy, France

Philip is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France

11466 Pte Philip Arthur Blanshard, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards

Click here to read more on the Coldstream Guards at Cuinchy.

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9 February 1915

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Richard Apjohn Fitz Gibbon died of wounds on this day in 1915

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Leon Alfred O’Meara was killed in action on this day in 1917

Eustace Delano Fishbourne died of wounds on this day in 1917

Harold Courtenay Woollcombe-Boyce was killed in action on this day in 1917

Harry Clayton Alban was killed in action on this day in 1915

John William Backhouse was killed in action on this day in 1916

John Elvin Collett was killed in action on this day in 1917

Ivan William Garnett was killed in action on this day in 1916

John Fawcett was killed in action on this day in 1915

Richard Brown died of illness on this day in 1916

Charles Grant was lost at sea on this day in 1915

Edward Gordon Riggall was killed in action on this day in 1915

Charles Percival Paine died of illness on this day in 1915

John Jackson died of wounds on this day in 1917

Edmund Battye was accidentally drowned on this day in 1915

Cecil Henry Dundas died of wounds on this day in 1915

David Ronald Cross was killed on this day in 1915

Henry Francis Heatly was killed in action on this day in 1915

Leonard Ewbank was killed in action on this day in 1916

Gilbert Thompson was killed on this day in 1915

Colin Edward Cumming was killed on this day in 1915

Katy Beaufoy was killed on this day in 1918

John Barley died of wounds on this day in 1915

Robert Robertson was killed in action on this day in 1915

Gerald Jamieson died of wounds on this day in 1916

Arthur Moore died of wounds on this day in 1916