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Alan Reeve

In memory of:

Lieutenant Alan Reeve

March 27, 1918

Military Service


Age:

23

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

11th Sqdn.

Additional Information


Born:

November 1, 1894
Cambridge, England

Enlistment:

September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Quebec

Son of Charles and Charlotte Reeve, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Dorothy, Margaret, Arthur, Marian, Hermann, Charles, Violet, Marjorie and Sergeant Frederick Reeve, 19th Bn, Canadian Infantry, killed in action 9 May 1917.

Commemorated on Page 490 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Inscription– Arras Flying Services Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Arras Flying Services Memorial– Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram March 1919. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram December 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
  • Group Photo– A photograph of N.C.O.s of the 3rd (Toronto Regiment) Battalion taken Fall 1915 near Ploegstreet Woods, Belgium. 2nd Lieutenant (then Sergeant #9485, 3rd Battalion) Alan Reeve, RAF is standing in the back right, extreme right with his friends.

From the Bob Richardson collection
  • Newspaper Clipping– Article
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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