Charlie Blakemore
According to family legend, Hannah Smith-Houghton was engaged to be married to Charlie but he was killed in Frannce three minutes before the end of World War 1.
Chares Rowland Blakemore was the grandson of Charles Blakemore (Senior), through James Manley Blekemore (Junior)! (So hannah’s half cousin sort of) He was indeed killed in action in the November of 1918, but not quite so close to the Armistice.
Charlie was the oldest child of James and his wife Mary Anne Woodward; he was baptised on 4th November 1984 in St Nicholas Church Warwick, while his farther was still a soldier. By the 1901 census James was a shopkeeper, Charlie had a younger brother Albert and they were living at 17 Barrack Street, Warwick.
In 1911 he was 16 and working as a hairdresser. The family had moved to their long term home at 50 Coventry Road Warwick – five children plus Mary’s mother.
was called up in 1916 – add the gallery with his army records. Father died in 1917
How did Hannah know Charlie well enought to become engaged to him?