William Bloor

Driver Bloor was remembered by Sergeant Eric Gray as one of the members of staff during his time at Coleshill House between May 1941 and April 1943.

Although there is no definitive evidence as yet, this is believed to be 64565 Driver William Bloor. On 13 May 1944 he married Mabel W Flitton of Stanton Fitzwarren , two miles south west of Highworth. In 1939 she was living at School House in the village with her parents and working at an assistant in the Toy Department of Woolworths in Swindon. She was living at the same address in on 10 Jul 1941 when, while cycling home from Swindon, she witnessed a fatal crash. Four soldiers were walking towards Highworth from Stratton and a motorcycle overtook them, colliding with a van travelling the opposite way. Sadly a soldier riding pillion on the motorcycle, Bernard William Nutting, of 47 Light AA Regiment was killed.

Although there were a lot of men named Bloor in the RASC, only one claimed medals after the war from a Swindon address - William Bloor. This provides circumstantial evidence for this identification. We be be interested if anyone had additional information to confirm or refute assumption.