FORMER COMMODORE OF N.Z. STATION
■ ♦ VICE-ADMIRAL SIR GEOFFREY BLAKE RETIRES LONDON, January 17. Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake has retired from the Navy at his own request, because of ill-health. Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake a former First Naval Member of the New Zealand Naval Board, and until recently Vice-Admiral Commanding the Battle Cruiser Squadron and Second in Command, Mediterranean, has returned home on sick leave wrote the London correspondent of me Press” on December 29. He was taken ill while swimming in Malta Harbour and spent two months in hospital. He has been succeeded by Vice 7 Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham. Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake entered the Navy in 1897. He had a distinguished war career, serving as Gunnery Commander on H.M.S. Iron Duke, Lord Jellicoe’s flagship, from 1914 to 1917, on which he fought at the Battle of Jutland. _ From the position of Chief of Staff, Atlantic Fleet, he came to the Dominion in 1929 as Commodore in Command of the New Zealand Station, He returned to England in 1932 as Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 9
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