Name
Edward John Reeve
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
555037
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
1st/16th 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
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Edward John Reeve was born in Balsham, Cambridgeshire, in 1886, son of Edward Reeve a Shoe and Bootmaker and Charlotte Harriet Reeve (nee Roope). One of seven children.
He was Baptised on 28th March 1886 in the Parish of Balsham, Cambs.
1891 Census records Edward Jr. aged 5, at school, living with his parent, three sisters and brother John (3) in High Street, Balsham, Cambs.
1901 Census Edward (15) has left school and is working as an errand boy, living with his parents, two sisters, Ellen (22), Hilda (3), brothers Edward (15) and Reginald (4) at, 13 Stoney Field Common, Birchanger Essex.
1911 Census records Edward (25) as single, employed as a Clerk Nurseryman, boarding with Percival & Jane Haines and their son at 208 Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts. His parent brothers, John, Reginald and sister Hilda are still living at, 13 Stoney Field Common, Birchanger, Essex.
Edward married May Elizabeth Clayton the daughter of George and Isabella Clayton of Waltham Cross, Herts, in Cheshunt, Herts, in 1911, they went on to have one daughter Dora May Reeve born in May 1917.
Wartime Service
Edward Jr. enlisted at Epping, Essex, posted to the 1st/16th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), with the service number 555037.
Edward Jr. arrived on the Western Front in May 1917, he was killed in action on the 14th August 1917, he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
May received a grant of £5, on 11th September 1917 and a widow’s pension of 18/9 a week from 4th March 1918, his effects of £2- 8s-7d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
