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A digital drawing of the REME emblem featuring a rearing white horse, a golden lightning bolt, a globe, and a royal crown.

The corps of royal and electrical and mechanical engineers

47 Blinco Grove (6 Ashover Terrace), Cambridge

History of 47 Blinco Grove

1901

William Wilson, 65, gardener not domestic, born Trumpington

Susan, 57, born Norfolk

1911

Thomas Sydney Watson, 35, gardener, born Stansted

Maria Watson, 24, born Cambridge

Ada Watson, 11 months, born Cherry Hinton


Arthur Edward Johns, a jeweller,  joined the Labour Coy, Suffolk Reg. in 1916 aged 35.

His son, Leonard Maurice, born 1910, died in India on 23/8/1944 serving as a corporal with REME in the Royal Corps of Signals. He was buried at the Gauhati War Cemetery.

 

Building dates

  • Built by 1899
Source for this date
  • Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900

Tags

  • work
  • world war one

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  • Blinco Grove

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