Captain James Robert BLAKE

Captain James Robert Blake{gallery}Capt J R Blake{/gallery}8th (Territorial) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Attached to 14th Battalion
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 25th March 1918, aged 24

• Commemorated: Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais and at Worcester Cathedral and Bretforton Church
• Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals.
• Son of Rev. James Edward Huxley Blake, Vicar of Bretforton, WOR, formerly of Wilnecote and Beatrice Harriet Blake
• NNWFHS Memorial: Wilnecote
  

Links to Relevant Information

FONTS BELOW NEED SORTING

• CWGC Page for Capt Blake
• NNWFHS Wilnecote War Memorial Page
• Arras Memorial
• Worcestershire Regiment
• Worcestershire Regiment Roll of Honour

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born Wilnecote 1894
• Living at The Lees, Malvern [1911]
• Scholar [1911] Two different photographs of Lieutenant/Captain J.R. Blake of Bretforton can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 13th January 1917 and Saturday 13th April 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.