1. Henry Blagrove was born to Colonel Henry John Blagrove, CB of the 13th Hussars and Alice Evelyn Blagrove nee Boothby at Harbledown, Kent in April 1887.
12 Facts About Henry Blagrove
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Five months after joining Tiger Henry Blagrove saw his first action in the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915.
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Unlike the battlecruisers in Rosyth, Queen Elizabeth was stationed in Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and it was there that Henry Blagrove met his future wife Edith Lowe, who was serving as a Wren.
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Aboard Queen Elizabeth, Henry Blagrove served out the war, being present at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet.
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Henry Blagrove was awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valour in 1917.
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Training and preparing his force in the run up to and opening weeks of the Second World War, Henry Blagrove proved himself a capable and efficient officer, despite some doubts regarding his quiet personality and consequent suitability for service in a seagoing command.
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Henry Blagrove's body was not recovered and the manner of his death is unknown.
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Henry Blagrove's family became aware of the sinking from newspaper billboards in Edinburgh the following day but were not overly concerned for his safety.
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Henry Blagrove's name is included on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial as his remains were never recovered.
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Henry Blagrove's actual gravesite, the wreck of Royal Oak, is a protected war grave and a memorial to all the men who died aboard her stands in St Magnus Cathedral on the Orkney Islands.
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Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove was an efficient, able and popular officer whose service record contains few blemishes and many commendations.
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Henry Blagrove's wife was Edith Gordon Lowe, who was Scottish, from Edinburgh.