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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 1545" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Blake </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Albert Henry </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>40 Commando </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>PO/X 4970 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>30th July 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bari War Cemetery, Italy XI.E.17 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.6.1923, Whaley Thorns, Langwith, Nottinghamshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Albert Henry (1893-1977) and Jane (nee Wilson) Blake (1894-1957), Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Albania</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>evacuated ill 29.7.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died of malaria Brindisi, Italy </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-blake.37067/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/37/37067-da039d2e33abd052a09f170f3dfa96f8.jpg?1655461800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-blake-grave.37065/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37065-b5f6bcd39055212ed036c474802c95d0.jpg?1655461497" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>[ATTACH=full]35781[/ATTACH]</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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