SON OF WALTER AND ISABELLA BLACKWOOD, OF CRAIGIEHAUGH, PORT GLASGOW, timber merchant. Educated at Greenock Academy. Worked in Canada as manager at Donald Fraser sawmills, Baker Brook, New Brunswick.
Machine Gun Corps(Heavy Branch).
Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery. Grave Reference II. DD. 12.
Joined 2nd Sportsmans battalion. Commissioned to 9th RSF then 2nd RSF