Name
George Blake
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
9441
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
St Giles Church Memorial, Great Hallingbury, Essex
Pre War
Arthur Blake was born in 1893 in Great Hallingbury, Essex (in the registration area of Bishop's Stortford) to Arthur and Susan Blake, one of 10 children. On the 1901 Census he was living with his family at Start Hill, Great Hallingbury. His father was a platelayer on the railway. His mother Susan died in 1913.
Wartime Service
He served in France from 6 October 1914 with the 2nd Bn Bedfordshire Regiment. He died on 25 September near Vermelles during the Battle of Loos and was among approximately 300 killed or wounded on that day. Mrs Ada Prior (his sister), of Manor Cottage, Higher Hove, nr Plymouth, Devon, applied for a clasp in respect of the services of her late brother.
Additional Information
George Blake's sister, Ada Prior (his sole legatee) received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £28 6s 4d.
N.B. CWGC name of Blakes with the 's' is incorrect.
Brother to Henry Charles Blake who died in 1917 and is buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium and also named on the St Giles Church Memorial, Great Hallingbury.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
