Name
William James Reeve
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1917
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
956193
Royal Field Artillery
'D' Coy. 186th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXIII. B. 9A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
IN THE SURE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bovingdon memorials *1
Pre War
Son of William George and Alice Jane Reeve, of Fulham, London.
Wartime Service
Died in the area of Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 Also commemorated on the family grave in Bovingdon (St. Lawrence) Churchyard, his inscription reads:
"In Memory of our Dear Son GUNNER WILLIAM JAMES REEVE (ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY) WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY AT YPRES, BELGIUM. SEPT 20TH 1917, AGED 18
IN SURE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE."
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
