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Name: BLAKE, Oswald Philip Theophilus Nicholas MBE
Nee: father of Gordon Thomas William Blake
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1894 Palermo
Death Date: 6 Sep 1971
Last Date: 1959
Profession: Manager Lever Brothers, Zaire (Belgian Congo) 1927-35. Sub-Editor Mombasa Times; Editor Tanganyika Standard to 1959
Area: Mombasa, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam
Married: In Birkenhead 16 Oct 1915 Beatrice Martha Cowell b. 25 Dec 1897 Egremont, Cheshire, d. 1990
Children: Dr Gordon Thomas William Blake DFC (7 Mar 1924 Wallasey-20 Feb 2013 Sanquar, Dumfriesshire)
Book Reference: EAWL
War Service: WW1 with Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Lt.). WW2 in KAR
School: Ardingly College, Haywards Heath, Sussex
General Information:
Source:- Mrs Margaret Blake, wife of Dr. G.T.W. Blake
After the war he worked for Lever Brothers in the Congo and then in East Africa and then went into journalism, becoming the editor of the East African Standard and later the Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa.