DAMBUSTERS Blake, Ernest Cecil Allan

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Blake ​

• FORENAME

Ernest Cecil Allan ​

• UNIT

617 Squadron,R.A.F. ​

• RANK

Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

548871 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

16th September 1943 ​

• AGE

24 ​

• GRAVESITE

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany Coll.grave 26.D.11-13 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 1919 Horton,Bradford,Yorkshire​

husband of Florence Gwendoline Blake,Little Horton,Bradford,Yorkshire​

RAF 1938​

Uxbridge 10.2.1938​

3 STT 29.4.1938​

Henlow 29.6.1938​

St Athan 12.10.1938​

32 Squadron 27.7.1939​

Cosford 20.5.1940​

19 OTU 6.9.1940​

St Athan 23.3.1941​

32 MU 23.2.1942​

24 MU 25.3.1942​

1654 CU 12.12.1942​

57 Squadron 17.2.1943​

617 Squadron 10.4.1943​

flight engineer​

Lancaster JA874​

Ladbergen (Dortmund-Ems Kanal)​

believed hit by flak and crashed near Bramsche,Germany​