Morris Blackman

Corporal Morris Blackman was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Stepney, the son of tailor Benjamin and Rose Blackman, of Courland and Poland, respectively. At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger Blackman had followed into his father's trade, as a fur cutter, and was living with his family at 16 Cecil Street, Mile End.
Aged 21, Blackman died on 27 April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, while serving with the 1/4th (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regiment on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Blackman, Morris, cwgc.org. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Latvian descent
Category:British people of Polish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
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