Biography:
BLAKE, CHARLES EDWIN NORMAN
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 70th Bde.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 30/07/1918
Additional information: Son of Charles Blake, of 11, The Avenue, Beckenham, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. F. 9.
Cemetery: BUZANCY MILITARY CEMETERY
Charles Edwin Norman Blake, son of Charles Blake of 11, The Avenue, Beckenham, Kent joined the 28th Battalion, London Regiment in 1909 and served in France & Flanders from 26 Oct 1914 until 26 Jul 1915, and then from 31 Jul 1915 until 16 Aug 1915. Discharged to commission in the Royal Field Artillery on 17 Sept 1915, he re-embarked for France and was subsequently awarded the Military Cross. Blake was killed in action on 30 Jul 1918, aged 32 and is interred in the Buzancy Military Cemetery, France.
A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Major C. E. N. Blake, 70th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, late Artists Rifles, who was killed in action on 30th July 1918. MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., in presentation case as issued; 1914 STAR (1393 L.Cpl., 1/28 Lond: R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major); BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Charles Edwin Norman Blake) EF £2750
Sold with an original portrait photograph of the recipient
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