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Lance Corporal RALPH HENRY BLAKE

Service Number: 2102
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

2nd/1st (South Midland) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

II. A. 61.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Ellen Blake, of Rose Cottage, Whipton, nr. Exeter.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1763
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