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Serjeant WILLIAM GILDEA BLAKE

Service Number: 14459
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 02 November 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MEASHAM CEMETERY

152.

United Kingdom

Vault NHMP, CH to right, double plot with 5'x5' Portland slab covers. Sundial in centre of plot. Inscription reads Blake W G.

Photographer: Darryl Glover

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Gildea Blake and Anne Frances Blake, of The Priory, Measham.
  • Personal Inscription TILL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY AVE ATQUE VALE
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Buried or commemorated at

MEASHAM CEMETERY
Leicestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 4
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