Person    | Male  Born 31/12/1896  Died 3/3/1916

Cadet Edward Sylvester Blake

Categories: Armed Forces, Medicine

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Cadet Edward Sylvester Blake

Edward Sylvester Blake was born on 31 December 1896 in Wilnecote, Warwickshire, the youngest of the three children of the Reverend James Edward Huxley Blake (1863-1933) and Beatrice Harriet Blake née Milward (1868-1950). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1897 in the Tamworth registration district, Staffordshire. On 13 February 1897 he was baptised in Holy Trinity Church, Glascote Lane, Wilnecote.

In the 1901 census he is shown as living in the Manor House, Hockley Road, Wilnecote, Warwickshire, with his parents and his two siblings: James Robert Blake (1893-1918) and Beatrice Elizabeth Blake (1895-1986), together with a cook, a housemaid and a nurse. His father was described as a clergyman - Church of England.

When his father completed the 1911 census return form he is shown as at school, residing in a twelve roomed property at 14 The Lees, Lauderdale Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, with his parents and his two siblings, together with a cook and a house parlour-maid. His father showed himself as a clergyman (established church).

He attended Malvern College, College Road, Malvern, Worcestershire.

He passed his preliminary examination in arts in September 1914 and commenced his medical studies at University College, London on 6 October 1914 and was registered there on 3 December 1914. He joined the university's Officer Training Corps as a Cadet and died whilst training, aged 19 years, on 3 March 1916, his death being registered in the 1st quarter of 1916 in the Brentford registration district, Middlesex.

His home address had been University College Hall, Queen's Walk, Ealing, Middlesex and he was buried at 2.30pm on 10 March 1916 in Plot E, Grave 6661, in Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, Middlesex. He is also commemorated as E. S. Blake on the Malvern College war memorial.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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