Blinco Troy E 1895

Troy Eugene Blinco [11291]

1895-1985

Father Nm: Percival Troy Blinco [10020]1869: Oldest known ancestor – Thomas Blincowe 1749 Mixbury.

Mother Nm: Maud Everitt 1871.

Family tree showing grandfather William Blinco and American cousins that served

Marriage Dt: Jun 1922 Springfield, Massachusetts
source 23 Jun 1922 The St. Maurice Valley Chronicle

K comments: American cousins Henry Carl Blinco and Douglas Stewart Blinco served in WW1. Daughter Dorothy served for a few months in 1945 as a Registered Nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal

Spouse comments: Priscilla Nettleton Healey 1899 springfield Masschusetts -1984.

Children: Dorothy Meverette 1923, Priscilla Pearl 1927, David Everett 1931.

Born 9 Nov 1894

Raton, New Mexico (death record, census).

1911 Census 27 30th Ave Champlain Grand-Mere, Quebec

Percy Blinco 41 Master Mechanic
Maud Blinco 38
Troy Blinco 16
Pearl Blinco 14
Harold Blinco 11
Russell Blinco 5
Loyd Blinco 3

1911-1914

Before the war attended Bishops College, Sherbrooke Quebec (source The St. Maurice Valley Chronicle Sep 26 1924)


Canadian Engineers	Royal Flying Corps	Royal Air Force

WW1

Blinco Troy Eugene, 1895, Sapper, Lance Corporal, 2006569, 171047, Canadian Engineers, CEF. Royal Flying Corps. RAF.

Synopsis

Troy Blinco was a gifted sportsman who was well school at the prestigous Bishops College in Montreal and was a draughtsman before enlisting in the CEF in 1917. As an Engineer and then a member of the RAF he didn’t leave Canada during the war. He took his technical skills to back to home town Grand Mere QUE. and work for the rest of his life in the engineering operations of the Pulp and Paper Industry. A local champion tennis player in the 1920s a keen Golf player later, he was a active Boy Scout, Church leader for all his long life. He was a celebrity in the small town of Grand Mere as the many local newspaper articles about him and his family attest. he died age 90 and was buried with his ancestors in Elora Ontario.

1917

1^st Sept. Enlisted with CEF in Montreal, Occupation Draughtsman.
10^th Nov. Appointed Lance Corporal at the Canadian Engineers Training Depot.

1918

8^th Mar. Discharged to enable joining the Royal Flying Corps, likely as a technician or engineer working on the aeroplanes. Note there was no Canadian Air Force at this time.
RFC workshop woman employed along with the men.
Part of an album of Royal Flying Corps photographs that belonged to the Hobbs family.
[Oshawa Community Museum & Archives reference: A001.6.18]
18^th Sept. Transferred to Canadian RAF to the 44^th Wing at Camp Borden Ontario.
8^th Oct. Posted to 87 Canadian Training Squadron at Deseronto.
Repair of “pranged” aircraft in the Training depots seems to have been a regular occurrence.
Part of an album of Royal Flying Corps photographs which belonged to the Hobbs family.
[Oshawa Community Museum & Archives reference: A001.6.18]
9^th Oct. Orders appear to have been changed the next day and re-instated to 44^th Wing at Camp Borden Ontario.
28^th Dec. Discharged surplus to requirements. On discharge granted Honorary Commission.