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
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
