Henry Bloom

Lieutenant Henry Bloom was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1888, in Stockton, the son of Russian-born pawnbroker Isadore and Flora Bloom (née Wineberg), of North Shields. Bloom was admitted as a solicitor in May 1912, practising in Middlesbrough. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he enlisted in the Durham University Officer Training Corps and obtained a commission in the 12th Yorkshire Regiment.Record of Service of Solicitors and Articled Clerks with His Majesty's Forces, 1914-1919, pp. 50-1.
Bloom's battalion, known as the Teeside Pioneers, went to the Western Front in June 1916 as the 12th's machine gun officer. Retrieved 20 June 2015. He died on 14 February 1917, killed by a shell while overseeing a work party in a communications trench known as 'Abode Lane'.A Memorial Roll of the Officers of Alexandra Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment Who Died (PDF), ww1-yorkshires.org.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
He is buried in Guards' Cemetery, Combles. 
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Bloom, Henry, cwgc.org. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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