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2nd.Lt. Lestock Henry Reid
New Zealand Expeditionary Force New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
from:Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.
(d.20th May 1916)
Lestock Reid was killed in action at Armentieres on the 20th of May 1916. He was the husband of Muriel G. Reid, of Kilkefernan, Clonmel and eldest son of Arthur Ironside Reid and Mary Sidney Reid of 122 Richardson St., Opawa, Christchurch, New Zealand. He took part in the first landing on Anzac Cove, on the 27th of April 1915 and served in Egypt. He was gazetted in France on the 7th of March 1916. He is remembered on his wife's gravestone and is buried in Armentieres.