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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 1546" 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>John Philip </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>43 Commando </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3rd June 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>26 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia 9.E.7 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em>born 17.11.1917 Portsmouth, Hampshire</em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Philip and Marjorie Flora Blake, Havant, Hampshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Emsworth House School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>attended Aldenham School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated St John's College, Cambridge (BA)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mathematics teacher, Sherborne School 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>payed cricket for Hampshire XI 1937-39</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.M. 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>43 Commando July 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.C. (London Gazette 27 June 1944)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Brac Island, Yugoslavia </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em>London Gazette 36583, 23rd June 1944, Page 3040</em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-blake.23348/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/23/23348-6c5a0fc635b73dd164c0157c0691dbce.jpg?1591401531" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-blake-grave.37068/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37068-9a1e740cf2e8e8ded4ca0ec572c18129.jpg?1655462090" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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