Name
Laurence Sinclair Rees
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/07/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Welsh Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 A and 10 A.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 27 Jan 1890 in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire son of Thomas and M. H. Rees later of Trehyfryd, Wexham, Slough, Buckinghamshire. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1899-1905 and played rugby for London Welsh afterwards. He was training as a furrier in Germany before WW1.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Sep 1914 in the Public Schools Battalion and obtained a commission in the Welsh Regiment where he acted as Intelligence Officer. He entered France on 2 Dec 1915 and was killed in action in Mametz Wood on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
