{"id":1634,"date":"2016-01-12T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T02:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=1634"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T14:58:42","slug":"blake-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/?page_id=1634","title":{"rendered":"Blake Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. \u2018Jeyes\u2019 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<\/em> and Theseus<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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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\u2019s Camp Sumatra internee. Repatriated from Singapore to Australia on Highland Chieftain. To NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Second service record:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Singapore Wedding. The Straits Times, 24 February 1928, Page 8:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 8 October 1927:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 11 July 1940:<\/p>\n\n\n

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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. \u2018Jeyes\u2019 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 … Continue reading Blake Family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muntokpeacemuseum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}