Service Details
Name:
 BLAKE
Given Name:
 NEVILLE CLEMENT
Initials:
 N C
Service No:
 103446V
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 21 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-11-05
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Martin Maryland Mk I/II #1653, 4 crew, shot down by Italian and German fighters near Berka airfield, Benghazi
Additional
Information:
Son of Edwin Hornsby Blake and Eileen A. Blake, of Moedig, Transvaal, South Africa. B.Sc. His brother also died on service. Commemorated on his brother's headstone in Springs Cemetery, Gauteng
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 246.

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