Leslie Robert Blake DSC b.1897 Barnet. To Singapore 1920. Rubber Broker, Dupire Morrell Ltd, Collyer Quay, Singapore. Sub Lt SS RNVR 1939 to early 1941. ‘Jeyes’ document records. Blake received a DSC award in 1918 for participating in the Zeebrugge Raid (see below). Also, he appears on the WW1 Navy Lists. He was in Coastal Motor Boats as a midshipman, then Sub-Lt. He served aboard ‘Torpedo Boat Destroyers’ Miranda and Theseus. He served in the SS RNVR as a Sub-Lt then from 9.39 to 2.41 Lt. Service terminated because of his civilian job commitments.
BLAKE Mrs D.M. Housewife aged 30 in 1942. Wife of R.L [CWGC records his wife as C. of Hove] She was interned with baby at Palembang Women’s Camp Sumatra internee. Repatriated from Singapore to Australia on Highland Chieftain. To NSW.
Second service record:
Singapore Wedding. The Straits Times, 24 February 1928, Page 8:
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 8 October 1927:
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 11 July 1940:
