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232090 Sgt. Alec Mark Blinko British Army 35th LAA, 144th Bty. Royal Artillery from:High Wycombe (d.5th March 1943) Alec Blinko was born in Beaconsfield in 1903. He grew up in Buckinghamshire and in 1923 he enlisted in the Royal Hussars serving for his contracted period until 1939. In 1927 he was transferred to cavalry of the line due to his regiment going to India for 5/6 years and his time was due up in 1929. I also have Army education certificate dated 8-9th Sept 1927 in Edinburgh where he had a two day exam along with a photo dated 11th September 1927 also in Edinburgh, at a cavalry barracks. In 1940 at age 37 he re-enlisted in the Royal Artillery Territorials. He died as a prisoner of war. Alec left two young sons and a wife in High Wycombe and is remembered still by his son George Blinko with great love and sorrow for the Dad who was taken away from him. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.