John Y. Fillmore Blake

John Young Filmore Blake, also known as John Y.F. Blake and J.Y.F. Blake was an Irish-American soldier and writer. He was born October 6, 1856, in Bolivar, Missouri in the United States, and died January 24, 1907, in New York City. Blake served as a foreign volunteer for the Boers of the South African Republic during the Second Boer War.