Private, South Wales Borderers, 2nd Battalion
Service no. 29117
Killed in action on 16 August 1917, aged 20
CWGC: "Son of Arthur and Alice Blake, of 23, St. Alphonsus Road, Clapham, London; husband of Ada May Blake."
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Brecon
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Victor Arthur John Blake was a 13-year-old schoolboy, living in an apartment with his parents, coachman John Blake (born in Clapham), 36, and Alice Mary Charlotte Blake (born in Battersea), 35, at 42 Scholars Road, Balham, London SW12. He was the eldest of five children, the others being: Leslie Harold Blake, 10, born in Westminster; Arthur Frederick Blake, 7, born in Balham; Stanley Leonard Blake, 5, born in Balham; Lilian Alice Blake, 2, born in Balham.
On the 16 August 1917 the 2nd Batallion of the South Wales Borderers lost seven officers and 36 other ranks at the Battle of Langemarck.