Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr George Godfrey Leigh Blake

Title: Mr
Forenames: George Godfrey Leigh
Surnames: Blake
Date of Death: 10/05/1945
Burial Date: 14/05/1945
Age at Death Years: 53
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 032 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section B Plot 28
Grave Description: Plain cross raised up on a three tier plinth, cemented top to grave surrounded by kerbstones. Cross and plinth coated or made of cement.

Grave Condition: Good
Grave Condition Description: Stone tablet covered in black lichen and very difficult to read
Other Information: Added burial date, source: Burial records

Also interred in this plot, Ambrose Foss (1883), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 7323

Inscription:

Top Plinth
IN MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND

Middle Plinth
GEORGE GODFREY LEIGH BLAKE
DIED MAY 10TH 1945

Bottom Plinth
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Stone Tablet in front of Cross
ALSO
OF HIS BELOVED WIFE
VERA HENRIETTA LOUISE
BLAKE
DIED 11TH JANUARY 1971
AGED 78 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
G Blake 17.10.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
G Blake 17.10.09
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Coroner's Inquest

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