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Military service
Service number:
116606
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
February 27, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Alfred and Ann Jane Blake.
Digital gallery of Private Herbert Percy Blake
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From the Daily Colonist of March 20, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y85uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Herbert Percy Blake
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Percy Blake
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Percy Blake
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 203 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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