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Lieutenant Colonel DESMOND O'B. E. FFRENCH BLAKE

Service Number: 6174
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

13th/18th Royal Hussars

Date of Death

Died 31 May 1943

Age 42 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IV. A. 2.

Tunisia

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment Cdg. 2nd Lothians and Border Horse Royal Armoured Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Mary Elizabeth Blake; husband of Elizabeth Iris Ffrench Blake, of Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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