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Military service
Service number:
77368
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
August 18, 1887
Death:
May 5, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 10.
Digital gallery of Private David Wilkie Reid
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Photo of David Wilkie Reid
"It is my painful duty to inform you that your son was killed in action by a rifle bullet, which struck him in the head. We are all sorry to lose him, as he was one of our best gunners and was liked by everyone and we all tender our deepest sympathy to you, but keep up your heart, because he died doing his duty to the last." Sgt.Bryson in a letter to David's parents. David was the second son of Mr Thomas Reid of 3A Wellington Road, Hawick, Scotland. In 1909, aged 22, David left Hawick and emigrated to Nanaimo, near Vancouver. -
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Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
War Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of June 16, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y161uvic#mode/1up.
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
Digital gallery of
Private David Wilkie Reid
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 153 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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