Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Blythe G    Pte    1914    George         5 Inf Bn    35    Tally clerk     Married    Bap        

Address:    Kensington, Rankins Rd, 83    

Next of Kin:    Blythe, Cecilia E, Mrs, wife, 83 Rankins Rd, Kensington

                                                               110 Rankins Rd, Kensington

                                                                 19 Mulgrave St, Kensington by 12 July 1917

Enlisted:    29 Dec 1914        

Embarked:     A20 Hororata 17 Apr 1915          

New regimental No 405

Relatives on Active Service:

Leslie Blythe of Abbotsford, nephew

Date of Death: 04/10/1917   Corporal   8 FCE

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

Widow remarried:  C E Ferguson  in 1930.

War Service Commemorated

Regimental Register

In Memoriam

BLYTH — Killed in action 4th October.

Corporal George E. M. Blyth, Engineers,

dearly beloved husband of Lena, and

fond loving father of Stephen, George

and Ernest, after two and a half years'  

active service, of Rankin-road, Kensington.

Far away in yon great battle field

My beloved husband lay;

A husband hard in this world his equal to find,

A father loving, true and kind.

How we longed for his home coming.

And his little sons would say, Muma, when is dada coming

From the big war home again.

Behind all shadows standeth God.

—Inserted by his sorrowing and broken hearted

wife Lena, and his little sons, Stephen, George and

Ernest.            

BLYTH - Officially reported killed in action 4th

October, George, dearly loved husband of Lena,

and loving father of Stephen, George and Ernest,  

of 110 Rankin road, Kensington.

Oh, for the clasp of a vanished hand.

And the sound of a voice that is still.

BLYTH - Killed In Action, Cpl. George, dearly loved

brother of Fred, and loving uncle of Leslie (on

active service) Evelyn, Bella, Bert and Frank, 34

Abbotsford-St, Abbotsford He did his duty.