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Personal info

Full name
BLAKENEY, Charles Selinger
Date of birth
8 February 1904
Age
40
Place of birth
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hometown
Woodstock, Grafton County, New Hampshire

Military service

Service number
O-521862
Rank
Captain
Function
Chaplain
Unit
112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
2 September 1944
Place of death
Compiègne, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 27 15

Immediate family

Members
Charles S. Blakeney (father)
Angeline B. (Hubley) Blakeney (mother)
Bernice H. Blakeney (sister)
Edna M. Blakeney (sister)
Lena M. Blakeney (sister)
Bertha L. Blakeney (sister)
Lester H. Blakeney (brother)
Margaret E. (Beckford) Blakeney (wife)
Ruth A. Blakeney (daughter)

More information

Capt Charles S. Blakeney was pastor on leave from the Greenland Federated Church and was graduated from Harvard Chaplain School on 10 July 1943. He was sent overseas in October 1943.

On 1 September Capt Blakeney was wounded during a fire fight on a forest road, just outside the town. He was evacuated but died a day later.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Solers, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, http://112th-infantry.blogspot.com, www.newspapers.com – The Portsmouth Herald New Hampshire 30 November 1944 / 11 October 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Christophe Clement