Name
Reuben George Edwin Galley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/01/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
2067
London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles)
1st/9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born 1895 in Walworth, London, Reuben was the son of George Charles and Gertrude Mary (nee Arymar) Galley.
In 1901 they were living Talbot Road, Grosvenor Place, Rickmansworth with Reuben and his sisters Ethel and Mabel. George was described as a Legging Maker (Machinist). In 1911 the family, now with seven children, was at 1 Maise More Villas, Ebury Road, Rickmansworth. Reuben age 16 was a Railway G C Clerk.
He left effects totalling £107.16s.2d and at his death his parents were living 112 Ebury Road, Rickmansworth.
Recorded as enlisting in London.
Wartime Service
The 1st/9th was a territorial battalion which landed Le Havre 5th of November 1914 and joined 13th Brigade 5th Division. Their first major action was at Hill 60 17th of April to 7th of May 1915, but Reuben was killed before that.
He died in the trenches at Wulverghem one of eleven men killed on the 1st of January 1915.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
