Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Gildea Blake a Registrar, born 1850 in Bombay, India and his wife Anne Frances, born 1850 in Congerstone, Leics. Nigel Everard, was born in 1891 in Measham, Leics., his siblings were Mary A., born 1880, William Gildea, born 1884, Frances A., born 1887 and James F., born 1889, all his siblings were born in Congerstone, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Holly Bank, High Street, Measham, Leics., in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Lawrence. In April 1911 Nigel was serving as a Private with the Coldstream Guards and was stationed at Victoria Barracks, Windsor, Berks. His elder brother William Gildea also died.