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Military service
Service number:
53847
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
September 4, 1896
Death:
January 30, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Digital gallery of Private Albert James Reeves
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Circumstances of Death Registers
"Previously reported missing, now for official purposes presumed to have died." About 9 a.m. on January 30th, 1916, he and a comrade left their trench under cover of fog. They reached an unoccupied listening post and found some bombs which they brought back to their own lines. They then returned to the listening post intending to wait their and bomb the enemy when they attempted to reoccupy the post. Private Reeves nor his comrade ever returned and from that time nothing has been seen or heard from them. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Albert James Reeves
Digital gallery of
Private Albert James Reeves
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 153 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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