Captain John Campbell BLAIKIE (135069)
Royal Corps of Signals

Date of birth: 12th November 1920
Date of death: 29th September 1946

Killed on active service aged 25
Commemorated at Harrogate Crematorium
John Campbell Blaikie was born on the 12th of November 1920 the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Cuthbert James Blaikie, Royal Army Medical Corps, and Helen Dorethea (nee Campbell) Blaikie of "Burlington", Highcliff Road, Swanage in Dorset.

He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Fields House from September 1934 to July 1939. He was a Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps achieving Certificate A in 1938 and was appointed as a House Captain in 1939.

On leaving school he went on to the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment on the 8th of June 1940. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 8th of December 1941 and transferred to the Royal Corps of Signals with the same rank on the 2nd of February 1946. He was promoted to Captain on the 1st of July 1946.

He died in an accident at 14 Harley Hill, Catterick Camp in Yorkshire.

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