BLAKE Albert Alfred

Additional information on the Roll of Service: Pte

Albert Alfred Blake was born in Badgeworth, Gloucestershire in 1891, the son of George and Alice Blake and brother of Charlie Blake.  In 1911 the family were resident in Bushley and Albert was employed as a farm labourer.

Albert Blake served as Private 13142, Gloucestershire Regiment.  He went to France on 20th September 1915.  He was discharged as no longer physically fit for war service on 24th July 1917 at the age of 25 years and 10 months.  A medical report states the cause of his discharge as debility following dysentery at Salonika in October 1916 and several severe asthma attacks in 1917.  Albert was 5 feet 7½ inches tall with a fresh complexion, grey eyes and black hair.

The Bushley, Longden, Queenhill and Holdfast Almanack and Year Book for 1915:
The Roll of Honour.
Bushley
The following is a List of Bushley men now serving their country in the Army.
1. Those who have enlisted for the War:
David Morgan, of Hill House, Lance-Corpl. 5th Glo’ster Territorials
William Nash, son of Mr Nash, Bushley School€¦.Culham School-masters Corps
Cecil Jones€¦.Trooper, Somerset Yeomanry.

In Kitcheners’s Army
J.O. Griffin (late chauffeur at Pull Court) Lance-Corpl. 9th Glo’sters
A.H. Walker, Lance-Corporal 9th Glo’sters
Henry Starling, of Freebarns End, 9th Glo’sters
J.T. Philpot, Bushley Green, 9th Glo’sters
Thos. Lane, The Gardens, Pull Court, 9th Glo’sters
H.G. Trigg, 9th Glo’sters
Charles Blake, Church End, 9th Glo’sters
A.A. Blake, 9th Glo’sters
Nathaniel W. George (who died in Hospital, Dec. 1) 9th Glo’sters
Richard Smith, Green Street Lodge, 9th Glo’sters
David Hamblin, 9th Glo’sters

Albert died in 1972.