Name
Henry Charles Blake
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14726
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
VII. F. 42.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials St Giles Church Memorial, Great Hallingbury, Essex,
Pre War
Henry Charles Blake was born in 1887 in Little Hallingbury, Essex (registration district of Bishop's Stortford) to Arthur and Susan Blake.
On the 1901 Census he
was living at Start Hill, Great Hallingbury with his family and working as a
cowman on a farm.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and the medal Index card indicates he served in France from 26 July 1915 when the 7th Bn Bedfordshire Regiment arrived in France. The 7th served entirely in France and Flanders until they were disbanded in May 1918.
He died on 27 October 1917 from wounds probably received in the Third Battle of Ypres, otherwise known as Passchendaele.
Additional Information
His father Arthur received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £29 3s 11d. Brother to George Blake who died in 1915 and is named on the Loos Memorial, France and also on the St Giles Church Memorial, Great Hallingbury. Although no headstone inscription is given in CWGC records for Henry Blake’s grave, his father’s name and address is listed.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
