Memorial

Lieutenant M F and Captain C R Blake

Blake family grave

Source: copyright CLPenn

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Current Location

St Michael and All Angels Church, Mardleybury Road, Woolmer Green, Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire, SG3 6LP, England

TL 25418 18435

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Addition to gravestone
WMR Reference Number: 110397
Description: Stone cross on inscribed stone plinth
Inscription: side of plinth: Sacred to the Memory of/ MAURICE FREDERIC BLAKE/ LIEUT. KING'S ROYAL RIFLES/ BORN OCT. 6th 1881, KILLED IN ACTION/ AT THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE SEP 14th 1914/ And of/ CECIL RODOLPH BLAKE/ CAPT. 10TH BATT. KING'S ROYAL RIFLES/ BORN OCT. 31st 1882, KILLED IN ACTION/ NEAR METZ-EN-COUTURE APRIL 4th 1917./ THE DEARLY LOVED SONS OF/ ARTHUR MAURICE & ISABEL BLAKE/ "THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES/ AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED."/ "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD"

Gravestone

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good