Blincow Henry 1898

Henry Blincow  [10898]
1898-1974

Father Nm: Charles [3189] born 1858 Tipton Staffs-Charles died 10.1.1923 Gartcosh Lanark: Oldest known Ancestor Henry Blencow 1709 Kings Sutton.

Mother Nm: [1831] born c 1862 Tipton Staffs d 1936.

Marriage Dt:6 Jun 1924 Marriage to Christina Johnstone Brackenridge, Moodiesburn, Chryston, East Cadder, Lanarkshire, Scotland: Burnbank:, Statutory Marriage, 626/A2 0014.

K comments: Brother John served with the Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded a Military Medal.

Spouse comments: Christina Johnstone Brackenridge 1902-

Children: Rachel Christie Blincow 1929.

Birth 28 June 1898 East cadder
1901 Census
  1. Charles Blincow 42
  2. Mary Ann Blincow 39
  3. John W Blincow 19
  4. Mary Ann Blincow 15
  5. Lily Blincow 13
  6. John Blincow 11
  7. Nelly Blincow 8
  8. Charles Blincow 6
  9. Lennie Blincow 4
  10. Henry Blincow 2
  11. Albert B Blincow 1
1914 Age: 18

Residence, Kings Hill Cottages, Garlco Street, Lanarkshire, Scotland:

Occupation Steel worker

Noted on Army Records for WW1:

3rd Scottish Rifles Cameronians Highland Light Infantry
WW1

Blincow Henry, 1898, Private, 54447, 6/HL/11219, 3rd Scottish Rifles, 6th Bn. Highland LI

1918
  • 28th Jun. Called up for Service.
  • 3rd Jul. Posted to 3rd Scottish Rifles.

    1917 Scottish Rifles- unusual for a Scots Regiment they did not wear the kilt.
1919
  • 27th Jan. Discharged to Reserves
Medals

No Medal card. Home based service.

After the War

1921 Called up for Emergency service with the 6th Highland Light Infantry served just 81 days and was given the rank Acting Corporal on discharge.

Note:

The ’emergency’ referred to is the state of emergency declared by the LG’s government on 15th April 1921 pursuant to the Emergency Powers in response to the invocation of the Triple Alliance by the Miners Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) for solidarity strike action by their allies the railwaymen and transport workers (including dockers).

A Royal Proclamation was publicly posted all over the country, on the 9th April 1921, and at once officers and men affected by it began to rally at their Regimental Depots or Mobilizing Centres.

The backdrop was the decontrol of the coal industry with the private owners attempting to impose masssive wage reductions purportedly in response to world market conditions. The state had laid careful preparations for decontrol and the inevitable response that it would provoke.
When the miners were locked out by the employers because of their refusal to accept massive wage reductions and locally determined pay rates, the response of the state was to declare a state of emergency and to deploy troops, tanks and armoured cars in the coalfields, backed up with the mobilisation of a special volunteer defence force – a Lloyd George version of the British White Guard originally called for by The Times in 1919.

The paradox was that on the very day that the emergency was implemented, the trade union bureaucracy capitulated. On Black Friday, 15th April 1921 the railway and transport unions failed to provide the solidarity action to which they were committed on the pretext that concilliation and compromise was possible and left the miners to struggle on alone to an inevitable defeat given the panopoly of state power and capital that they were confronted with.

Death 1974 age 76 years

Chryston, Lanarkshire, Scotland:

Statutory Death Index, 561/00 0014

Note:

There are 16 records in the National Archives for this man. For copyright reasons, they cannot be re-published.