Was killed in action on the 15th November 1916, his remains were never found and his name, along with his brother Joshua are recorded, along with 72,246 others, on the Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval, he was 32 years of age. His name is honoured in St Thomas’s Church Melling. On the 10th January 1918, a third son Private 267761 William Blundell of the 2nd/7th Battalion of the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment was killed just prior to the last German offensive of the war, the Kaiserschlagt, he is buried in the CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY ARMENTIERES FRANCE and was 34 years of age. His name is honoured on the memorial at St Thomas’s church Melling.