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Brothers Jules, Leon and Georges Le Blond
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Sergeant Jules Le Blond
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey
Light Infantry
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1914-15 Star
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Sergeant Jules E Le Blond. 1914-1915
Star. 2523 Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Ex 3254 RIR.
To 35492 RIR 08/03/19. B.1884 at St Helier, Jersey.
Son of Esprit Napoleon Le Blond and Celestine Victorine
Lepelletier Le Blond, of 6, Rohais, St Peter Port.
Sergeant Leon
Le Blond. 1914-1915 Star. Hampshire Regiment.
Born 1887 at St Saviour's, Jersey. Enlisted at Guernsey.
He served in India with the Hampshire Regiment before
the Great War and had been in the Dardanelles before
going to the Western Front. Died of wounds in 1917.
Private Georges Le Blond. 1914-1915
Star 706397 Private UK Labour Corps Ex 12324 Dorsetshire
Regiment. B.1886 at St Saviour's, Jersey. Husband of
Hermine Le Blond. Son of Esprit Napoleon Le Blond and
Celestine Victorine Lepelletier Le Blond, of 6, Rohais,
St Peter Port.
The Le Blond family were not of long
standing in Guernsey. Originally from Normandy, they
left France at the end of the 19th Century when the
French government closed the Catholic schools and decreed
that all education was to be secular.
They spent some years in Jersey (Sergeant
Leon Le Blond was born there) before moving to Guernsey.
Leon became a regular soldier. He served in India with
the Hampshire Regiment before the Great War and had
been in the Dardanelles before going to the Western
Front. I believe that his brother Georges had also been
a regular in the Dorsetshire Regiment before the Great
War and then transfeered to the Labour Corps.The third
brother, Jules was a member of the Royal Guernsey Militia
before the war and had joined the Royal Irish Regiment
when war came. He later spent some time with the Royal
Guernsey Light Infantry. He appears on the rolls of
both regiments in Eddie Parks' book "Diex Aix",
but with an 'e' mistakenly added to his surname on both.
According to Eddie's lists his RGM number was 1813,
his RIR number was 3254 and his RGLI number was 2523.
3254 is the number on his medals. He finished his career
back in the Royal Irish Regiment (He later recalled
Captain Tommy Hutchesson as his OC), which was disbanded
in 1922 when Ireland was partitioned. He then left the
Army and returned to Guernsey to see out his life. He
died of cancer in the late 1950s.