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Sgt Bernard Blackmore
British Army 1st/4th Glos. Regiment
from:Clevedon, Somerset
Prior to WW1 Bernard served in the 2nd. (Wessex) Field Company Royal Engineers but at the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted on 1st. September 1914 in Bristol as 2432 Private, 1st/4th Btn. Glos. Regiment. By 1915 he had attained the rank of 200538 Sergeant in the same Battalion. He was seriously wounded on 22nd August 1916 during the assault on the Leipzig Redoubt. His injuries were so serious that he never returned to active service.