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Sapper NIGEL EVERARD BLAKE

Service Number: 25034
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

2nd Field Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1915

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DIVISIONAL COLLECTING POST CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

I. R. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Gildea Blake and Anne Frances Blake, of The Priory, Measham, Burton-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription WOULD TO GOD I HAD DIED FOR THEE O NIGEL MY SON, MY SON
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Buried or commemorated at

DIVISIONAL COLLECTING POST CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 765
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