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Commodore Geoffrey Blake
Western Mail, Thursday, 7 November 1929, p. 2.
Commodore Geoffrey Blake
Commodore Geoffrey Blake, the new commander of the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy - which means the cruisers Dunedin and Diomede - was one of Jellicoe's young men. He was gunnery commander in the Iron Duke at Jutland, and occupied the same position aboard Bealty's flagship at a later stage of the war. He has since been naval attache at Washington and director of the Naval Staff College. Mrs. Blake is a daughter of Sir William Carr, the, South African, mining magnate.