This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blake, Stanfield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ei.2ADI/2255.2 Message Board Post: Charles E. Blake Private First Class United States Army 596th Signal Air Warning Battalion Service Number 35347936 South Bend – St. Joseph County – Indiana DOD - September 3, 1944 Buried in the Manila American Cemetery – Philippines Two from County Dead, Three Wounded Private First Class Charles E. Blake, age 22, of 113 Dubail Avenue died in New Guinea as a result of typhus fever September 3, 1944, his wife , Josephine, has been notified by a War Department telegram. A member of the signal corps he had been overseas since March. Private Blake was a graduate of riley high School and a former employee of the Electro-Voice Manufacturing Company before entering the service in November 1943. Also surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blake, 228 Sycamore Street, South Bend. An obit for Charles Blake appeared in the So Bend Tribune on 11 Sep 1944. It states that he died of typhus fever in New Guinea on Sep 3. Survivors included his wife, Josephine, and his parents Edward and Effie Blake. He was a member of the Signal Corps and had been overseas since March. He was a graduate of Riley High School and was employed by Electro-Voice Mfg Co. prior to entering the service in Nov of 1943. His wife died in March of 1988. She married Charles Apr 23, 1943. Her maiden name was Standfield. Her survivors included two sisters and a brother. The attachment includes pictures of Charles Blake and Paul Bailey.