Seeking family of Sub Lt Arthur Blake Royal Navy pilot attached 19 Sqn RAF during BoB

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Slough Observer.

AN APPEAL has been sounded to find the family of a fallen war hero to unveil a new road in honour of his bravery.

Barratt Homes wants to find the family of Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Giles Blake who was an RAF pilot [sic] with 19 Squadron during the Battle of Britain.

Mr Blake, who was given the nickname ‘Admiral’, was killed in October 1940, at the age of 23, when his Spitfire was attacked by a stray German aircraft on routine patrol over south London.

His aircraft travelled nearly 20 miles north before crashing in flames in Chelmsford, Essex, and he was buried in St Mary’s Church, in St Mary’s Road, Langley, Slough.

The developer is naming the streets of its new development in Basildon after the airmen who fell in Essex, but the company want to trace any relatives of Mr Blake to unveil the new street called Blake Way.

It is thought they could live in the Slough area.

Mr Blake was born in Northumberland in 1917 and was one of eight known children.

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