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Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount CB OBE MC (26 October 1893 – 23 October 1940) was an English soldier, airman and first-class cricketer. ==Family== Blount was born in Kamptee (now Kamthi), Maharashtra, India. His father, Major Charles Hubert Blount (1855–1900), served with the 20th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and died of dysentery at Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa, during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Blount was the first son of his father's second marriage, to Mary Elizabeth Bell. He had half-siblings from his father's first marriage to Eleanor Maud Philips, including Blount's half-brother, Captain Greville Blount, RHA (1883–1914), who died in France during the first year of the First World War,〔(CWGC entry for Captain Greville Blount )〕 who is a great-grandfather of singer James Blunt. Blount's younger brother, John Hillier Blount, attended Sandhurst and was granted temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in April 1918. He joined the nascent Royal Air Force, but died in an aircraft crash near Beverley in July 1918.〔(CWGC entry for Second Lieutenant John Hillier Blount )〕 Blount's son, Christopher Charles Blount, was born 1925. He became a Squadron Leader in the RAF. He married Susan Victoria Cobbold, the second daughter of Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold, in 1957, and was later awarded the MVO. Blount's great-great nephew is singer James Blunt (né James Hillier Blount). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Hubert Boulby Blount」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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