Archer Blinks

1886-1949

Father Nm: Albert Blinks 1845-1922; Oldest known Ancestor – Edward Blinks 1805 Tenterden Kent

Mother Nm: Mary Anne Gasson 1853-1938.

Marriage Dt:1916 to Hilda Eastmond, St Dunstans Church, Cranbrook, Kent.

K comments: Brother Mercer served with the ASC as a Butcher.

Spouse comments: Hilda Eastmond BIRTH 9 AUG 1891 • Reigate, Surrey
DEATH 1 SEP 1978 • Tonbridge, Kent, England

Children:

Birth 1886

Hurst Green, Sussex
Baptism 1887 25 Jan
Salehurst Church, Salehurst, Robertsbridge,East Sussex

1891 Census

Age: 5
Butchers Shop, 83 London Road, Hurst Green, Sussex.

1901 Census

Age: 15
Delmonden Farm, Hawkhurst, Kent, England, UK

1911 Census Delmonden Farm, Hawkhurst, Kent

Age: 25
Working in father, Albert’s, butchers business.

1917

Age: 31
Kilndown, Kent, England, UK
Archer rented his own smallholding at Church Farm, Kilndown, Kent, England, UK

Online War Photo Album	Royal Flying Corps	Royal Air Force

WW1

Blinks Archer, 1886, Hurst Green, Sussex, Private 2, 55463, RAF (Cook).

Archer a butcher with the family business would have been exempted earlier in the War, hence he joins in 1917 the RFC.

1917

• 23^rd Jan. Enlisted with RFC most likely became a Cook for the RFC.

1918

• 1^st Apr. Transferred to RAF. Trade Classification Cook.
• 1^st Dec. Posted to 12 Balloon Base at Crystal Palace. A ballon base housed the hydrogen balloons used to spot enemy aircraft approaches.

1919

• 25^th Feb. Transferred to RAF reserves.
• 20^th Apr. Discharged.

Medals

After the War

1934
Age: 48 Kiln Down, Kent, England, UK.

Death 1949 age 63 years

Kilndown, Kent, England, UK.

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There are 3 records in the National Archives for this man. For copyright reasons they cannot be re-published.