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Noel's father George was a solicitor, town clerk and clerk to magistrates in Whaddon, Tewkesbury in the 1901 census. Noel was at Cheltenham College in 1911

Information from Dick Flory on The Great War Forum (2004): "2nd Lt. Noel Carlton Blakeway Born 24 Dec 95, the son of George Sheffield Blakeway, Esq., Solicitor, Staniforth, Tuffley, Gloucester. Educated at Cheltenham College from Sept 09 to Dec 14 Served with 3 Bn, Dorset Regiment KIA near Boiselle, France on 27 Mar 16 Source: Cheltenham College Register, 1841-1927." See: 1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=81542f9ed84... CWGC database entry: BLAKEWAY, NOEL CARELTON Rank: Second Lieutenant Date of Death: 27/03/1916 Age: 20 Regiment/Service: 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment Cemetery: Martinpuich British Cemetery, Somme, France Grave Reference: A. 17. Additional Information: Son of George Sheffield Blakeway and Florence Blakeway, of Staniforth, Tuffley, Gloucester. Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/545339/BLAKEWAY,%20NO...

According to Cricinfo he played once for Gloucestershire (against Middlesex when he scored a duck in his first innings and two in his second). He never played for England.

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His MIC shows that he was Corporal 12L/5950 12th Lancers. Commissioned 12th Lrs. 28.10.1915. Then 2nd Lieut in the Gloucestershire Regiment.

Date of entry into theatre of war 15.8.1914.

Alfred was born in 1884 in Didbrook. The 1891 census shows him aged 6 living with his parents and 9 siblings aged between 12 and 4 months. They were living at the School House where Alfred Snr described himself as "Organist and sometime [Engine] Proprietor" and his wife Mary was Schoolmistress.

By the 1911 census Alfred was a Lance Corporal stationed in Egypt/Sierra Leone/South Africa/Sudan.

His family still lived in Didbrook. HIs parents had been married for 37 years and of their 15 children, 3 had died. Only 4 daughters were at home on census night and the 2 eldest girls were assistant teachers, whilst their mother was now Headmistress.

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