Alfred Henry BLAKE

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BLAKE, Alfred Henry

Service Numbers:	400458, V446919
Enlisted:	15 January 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 457 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 21 November 1918
Home Town:	Ararat, Ararat, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk, Victorian Railways
Died:	Flying Battle, Off Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 28 May 1943, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Northern Territory Memorial, Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia. Panel 6.
Memorials:	Adelaide River Northern Territory Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 400458
15 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V446919
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, No. 457 Squadron (RAAF)
14 Sep 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 400458

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Alfred James Blake and Evelyn Blake

Husband of Lesley Francis Dorothy Blake of Caulfield, Victoria

Flying Officer Alfred Henry Blake 400458 of Number 457 Squadron was killed in the loss of Spitfire AR226 near Darwin, NT during combat with enemy aircraft (Flying Officer Beale 402842 was killed in the same mission)

Commemorated on the Northern Territory Memorial to the Missing located at Adelaide River War Cemetery, NT

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Mr and Mrs A. J. Blake, of High st, Ararat, have been officially noti-fied that their elder son, Flying Officer Alfred Henry (Harry) Blake, 25, is presumed to have lost his life on May 28, 1943, after the raid on Millingimbi Island, in which he was reported missing. Before enlisting in the RAAF in 1940 he was em-ployed as a clerk in the rolling stock branch of the Victorian Rail-ways. After completing his training in Canada he was attached as a fighter pilot to a Spitfire squadron in England, and returned to Aus-tralia with the first Spitfire squad-ron to come out here in August, 1942. The following year he was transferred to Darwin, where he gave a good account of himself in bring-ing down a number of Japanese Zeros. Flying-Officer Blake married Miss L. F. A. Sittlington, daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Sittlington, of Blake st, Caulfield.

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