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Born on 19 January 1879 in Dymock, Gloucestershire, Blackburn was the third child of Edwin Waller
Blackburn and Sarah Jane Blackburn (née Tate). Soon after his birth the family moved to Carcroft, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, where his father took up an appointment as a schoolmaster. Harold became an
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Yorkshire Agricultural Show at Bradford on 22 July 1914 the Yorkshire Evening News established the Great Yorkshire Show Air Line, inaugurating "the first air-line service in Great Britain between cities flying to a time table" with half-hourly flights between Leeds and Bradford using the
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In 1912 Harold
Blackburn helped establish a motorcycle manufacturing business with C. S. and E. A. Burney. When the first machines were successful the business was incorporated as Burney and Blackburn Ltd., although at this point Blackburn sold his stake. Despite his absence the business built
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Upon the outbreak of World War I Harold
Blackburn joined the Royal Flying Corps, receiving his Certificate 'B’ (no. 214) from the Central Flying School at Upavon, Wiltshire, on 19 August 1914. He flew in combat in France during that year. In 1915 he assumed command of 'C’ Flight of
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successfully used to destroy the water tank of the remote
Turkish outpost at Bir el Hassana on 26 February 1916. Blackburn was given command of No. 22 (Reserve) Squadron in Egypt though he later saw further service in England and France, for which he received the
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Despatch from General Sir Archibald Murray (London Gazette No. 29845) for distinguished services in Palestine: ″Special commendation is due to... Major H. Blackburn, Royal Flying Corps, who commanded the detachment at
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Commander and moved to Jersey. He was evacuated during World War II but returned to the island, where he died in 1959. He is buried at Trinity Church with his second wife Ruth Morley.
185:(19 January 1879 – 29 April 1959) was a British aviation pioneer. Blackburn was the first pilot to carry newspapers for commercial sale by air and on 22 July 1914 piloted the first scheduled passenger-carrying flights in Great Britain.
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September 1924, when he left to become base commander at the
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as passenger. The race began evenly but in deteriorating conditions
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single-seat monoplane (which survives in flying condition with the Shuttleworth Collection) and its two-seat derivative, the
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Blackburn Type I piloted by Harold Blackburn. The first passenger was Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, the Lady Mayoress of Leeds.
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Harold Blackburn flew the Type I monoplane at the Sheffield Aviation Week (28 March - 4 April 1914) sponsored by the
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1 October 1916 – Mentioned in a Despatch from General Sir Archibald Murray for distinguished services in Palestine.
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1 July 1916 – Mentioned in a Despatch from General Sir Archibald Murray for distinguished services in Palestine.
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14 January 1916 – Awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette No. 29438) for distinguished services in Palestine.
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Harold Blackburn, Royal Flying Corps, after receiving the Military Cross for service in Palestine, January 1916.
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engineer and by 1901 worked as a bicycle maker and repairer in Doncaster.
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Winged Promises: History of No.14 Squadron, RAF 1915–1945
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493:"From the British Flying Grounds"
457:1901 census, reference RG13/4414.
448:1891 census, reference RG12/3866.
125:Violet Louise Lister (1896–1966)
784:Recipients of the Military Cross
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127:ended by divorce in 1935
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566:"The War of the Roses"
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482:Year Book 1911, p. 29.
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133:ended by his death
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