Name
Edward Reeks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
57508
Royal Field Artillery
26th Battery, 17th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES
IV. A. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Whitley Road, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Alfred G and Ellen Reeks and still living there in 1901.
He married Florence in 1910 and they lived in 33 Stanstead Road, Rye Park in 1911 with one daughter. He was a nurseryman and later lived in Enfield.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Mill Hill, Middlesex, entered France on 21 Jul 1915 and died of wounds.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
