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Lt. Reid
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Lt -Col. A. D. Reid
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Pte. Alexander Reid
British Army 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
(d.31st Jan 1917)
Alexander Reid served with the Highland Light Infantry 16th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 31st January 1917 and is buried in Bertrancourt Military Cemetery in Bertrancourt, France.
This 30 year old volunteer’s relatives were puzzled by the untimely end to the soldier’s life, The headstone bears an inscription “Thy purpose Lord we cannot see but all is well that’s done by thee.”
Pte. Andrew Reid
British Army 4th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:26 East Terrace, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.13th May 1916)
Andrew Reid enlisted enlisted in Wallsend, I cannot find the date. He has no medals, so probably did not do any active service. He also died in Walker Hospital. I do not think it was Walker Park Hospital, but Walkergate Hospital, more than likely he died of an illness.
Pte. Anthony Reid
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Glasgow. Scotland
(d.21st Oct 1916)
Anthony Reid was killed in action at the battle of the Somme on Saturday 21st October 1916.
He has no grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, he is also mentioned on the Glasgow Cenotaph.
Pte. Archibald Reid
British Army 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
(d.25th Sep 1915 )
Mjr. C. A. Reid DSO.
British Army 173rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Major Reid Scott served with D Battery, 173rd Brigade RFA.
Pte. D. L. Reid
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:White-le-Head
D Reid was discharged in 1919
Sjt. Ebenezer Reid
Australian Imperial Force. 39th Btn.
Flt Sub. Lt. Ellis V. Reid
Royal Naval Air Service B Flight 10 Naval Sqd.
from:Canada
Rifleman. Ernest Robert Reid
British Army 8th (Post Office Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:15 Princes St, Londonderry
(d.7th Nov 1916)
Whilst researching my Irish ancestry I discovered that my gran's uncle Robert Reid, died on service during WW1. He was a post office manager in Londonderry and is buried in Wiltshire. He was forty three I believe and I guess must have volunteered. He was in the postal service from a young age and worked his way to manager, this was quite a different career to the others in the family who were shirt factory specialists and managers. As yet we do not know if he was wounded and taken to England where he died in hospital or had contracted an illness. He is buried in St John's churchyard Sutton Veny in Wiltshire. We know the date of death but not when his injury/illness occurred and it would be wonderful to find out. does anyone know how to find this out?
Pte. F Reid
British Army 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
Among our family's effects are medals awarded to Pte. F. Reid, Service no. 8430, 2/LINC:R, which I'm told means 2nd. Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment of the British Army. Who Pte. Reid was and how his medals came into our family is a total mystery. My research shows that 2/Linc. joined the 25th Brigade, 8th Div. on its posting to France from Bermuda around October 19th. 1916 and would have later fought at the Battle of St. Quentin.
My grandfather, Arnold Kemp, served with the AIF during WWI and was killed at the Battle of St. Quentin in September 1918. When I was quite young, my father gave me a signet ring bearing the initials 'FSR', which I'm now wondering might have belonged to Pte. F. Reid.
Any help with this mystery would be appreciated.
Pion. Frederick Robinson Reid
British Army Royal Engineers
Pte. George Reid
British Army 7th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Alice Street, Cardiff
(d.5th Nov 1917)
George S Reid was born in Cardiff in 1889 and was killed in action on 05/11/1917, he was with the South Wales Borderers, 7th Battallion during The Great War. He is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece/Macedonia.
He appears in the 1891 Wales Census age 2 yrs and is in the 1901 Wales Census age 12yrs resident at 27 Eleanor Street, Cardiff.He is listed with his parents John Reid born in Govan, Scotland and Mary Reid nee Murray born in Scotland.His father came to Cardiff to work in the Cardiff Dry Dock as a Boilermaker. George came from a large and loving family, with two step sisters and a step brother from his fathers 1st marriage; William, Maggie and Mary Anne and siblings, Jennnie, Joseph, Edith, Mary, Christina, Jessie and John. George S Reid will live forever in the hearts of his family. We honour and respect his memory.
Pte. George Reid
British Army 2nd Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sheffield
(d.28th September 1915)
Pte. Isaac Reid
British Army 2nd Btn. Scots Guards
(d.9th Apr 1915)
Pte. Isaac Reid served with the Scots Guards 2nd Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 9th April 1915 and is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omar) Souvenir cemetery, Longuenesse, France.
Pte. J. Reid
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte James Reid
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Walbottle, Newburn-on-Tyne.
(d.15th Jul 1916)
Reid, James. Private, 19/984, Killed on 15th July 1916. Aged 31 years.
Buried in Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, in grave Div. 3. A. 6.
Son of the late James and Margaret Foster Reid, of Walbottle, Newburn-on-Tyne.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
CSM. James Reid
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Mansfield, Notts
My Grandfather James Reid was a Northumberland Fusilier. He was born in Byker near Newcastle in or around 1895. I have been told that he was a Sgt Major and fought at Passchendaele, surviving the war. All that I have of him is an early service photograph and his "swagger cane". After the war he failed to settle down into civilian life and in 1921 he left my grandmother and went off to Australia, landing in Freemantle. After this I have no trace of him at all.
I am not 100% sure that he was indeed a Sgt Major and I have no idea which battalion he belonged to, but now as a battlefield tour guide, I take the old man's stick back across to Passchendaele which is the home of Tyne Cot cemetery where there are many soldiers from the Northumberland Fusiliers buried.
Possibly much of the 'information' that I have is from "family history" and therefore unreliable and I would just love to be able to trace him and find the truth. Whatever happens, I am proud of the old man and those who served with him. We will remember them.
I have some information from Carolyn Scott who came across this record whilst trying to track down a bit more family info - "pretty sure it's our grandfather James Read who skipped off and left Grandma Mabel pregnant with your mum. The 'Omar' passenger list has his home address as 18 Commercial Road, Bykar, Newcastle-on-Tyne; occupation Steel Moulder. I remember Auntie Agnes telling me he left Mabel and went off with another woman and the last she heard he'd gone to Perth, Western Australia to work on the railroad. She also told me he joined the Army at age 14 and went off to fight in India and ultimately ended up as a S/Major, so we might find him in the military records too. It's a job and a half trying to track everyone down and obviously there are a lot of times, dates and places I don't have so I just keep having a 'stab in the dark' and hopefully, bit by bit, I'll be able to pull it all together and end up with a reasonably informative family tree. I also remember Auntie Agnes speaking of 'Grandma Barber' but can't for the life of me figure out who she was and where she fits in and of course, I only have one set of grandparents unless I'm able to find out who my father was. I'd probably get a lot more info if I paid for an annual subscription but money's tight so I'm going to check out the local library and see if I can get free access to various records there. I'll keep digging and see if I can get any info from Uncle Frank & Auntie Barbara next time we have a chat, mind you, I've already tried a couple of times and don't seem to get very far as Uncle Frank is a man of 'very few words' and Auntie Barbara's always so busy telling me about her work at the hospital and all her fund-raising etc., that I barely get a word in. I realise it's all a long time ago and it's not something they need to be interested in but they're really the last of the 'oldies' in the family who might be able to fill in some of the 'missing pieces'."
Mr J Read is listed on the UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960, aged 33. Departure Date: 21 Sep 1923, Port of Departure: London, England. Destination Port: Fremantle, Australia. Ship Name: Omar
Cpl. James Reid
British Army 6th Btn. Cameron Highlanders
(d.11th May 1918)
James Reid was executed for desertion 11/05/1918, aged 26 and buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.
Pte. James Reid
British Army 1st Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:104 Fountain Street, Londonderry
(d.26th Jul 1915)
James Reid served with the 1st Btn. Dublin Fusiliers, he is buried in Lancashire Landing Cemetery.
Drvr. James Reid
British Army 102 Brigade, D Coy. Royal Field Artillery
(d.6th Oct 1916)
L/Cpl. James Reid
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Pte. Jeremiah Reid
British Army 2/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:196 Hornby St, Liverpool
(d.28 Mar 1918)
Jeremiah Reid was my late Dad's older brother b. 27 February 1899 in Liverpool and baptised on 3 March 1899 @ St Augustine's RC Church, Gt Howard St., Liverpool. His parents (my grandparents) were Christopher & Christina Reid, both of whom were born in Liverpool. My grandfather Christopher was a merchant seaman.
On 18 September 1915 my uncle Jeremiah enlisted into the Kings Liverpool Regt., in Liverpool and undertook training in nearby Seaforth Barracks. He would have been 16 years old at the time. His regimental number was 46128 and his description was as follows:- height - 5 ft 2 1/4 ins, weight - 104 lbs, 33" Chest - girth fully expanded, Range of expansion - 2 1/2",
During his time in the army he was transferred to several regiments including Herefordshire Regt., Monmouth Regt., Base Depot and finally Royal Warwickshire Regt.
At one point he acquired another army number, 228873 or 2128873 (I can't quite make it out from the damaged document) but on transfer to the Warwickshire's he became Pte Jeremiah Reid 315136.
On 28th March 1918 my uncle was killed in action, in the field, aged just 19 years. Theatre of War is given as - France & Flanders. Sadly, we have no photographs of him. Like thousands of other parents, on receipt of this dreadful news my grandparents were devastated.
My family have been researching our family history for about 30 years now and, thanks to a cousin who discovered a bag containing old documents in his deceased mother's loft some years ago, we have been able to piece together a short story to our uncle Jeremiah.
On finding his details on CWGC website my sister and I travelled over to France to 'claim the grave' in our late Dad's memory and I am now working on our family history book in which I'm incorporating every letter, document and detail I can find. I have photographs of the grave which is situated in Roye New British Cemetery, France.
Pte Jeremiah Reid 325136 will always remain in our thoughts and in our writings for future generations.
Cpl. John Reid
British Army 12th (Ayr and Lanark Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Kilwinning, Ayrshire
(d.1st November 1918)
Pte. John Paterick "Paddy" Reid
British Army 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Orpington
Jack Reid left Ireland and joined the British Army, 13th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. He was sent to France where he received severe facial and arm wounds on 10th of August 1917 at the age of 22. Paddy was returned to England for treatment at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. Here he received facial reconstruction as a patient of Dr. Gillies. Paddy also met and married a local girl, Kathleen Price, who we believed worked at the hospital. They lived in Orpington and St Mary Cray area and brought up a family of seven. Paddy worked at Fort Halstead as an engineer until retirement. He very rarely spoke of his wartime experiences.
Pte. Jon Patrick Reid
British Army 17th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
Jon Reid served with the 17th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. I have recently found my grandfather's medical records due to him being severely injured when a shell exploded against his gas mask. He had 4 years of revolutionary plastic surgery in Kent. He was also with the 3rd Royal Fusiliers. I was named after him
L/Cpl. Joseph Reid
British Army 12th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Larne, Co. Antrim
(d.28th Sep 1916)
Joseph Reid served with the 12th Royal Irish Rifles and 108th Trench Mortar Battery.
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.
Pte. Martin "Ba" Reid
British Army Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dublin
My maternal grandfather, Martin Reid enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles in Dublin Ireland, when he was 18 yrs old, he was sent to France in 1914. Although he didn't speak about his war experiences very often or in any great detail, he told us about the awful trench conditions, which were flooded and stinking. Often they were short of ammunition. He said they were over run with lice. He told us the noise from the constant bombardment was dreadful. The cries of the wounded soldiers were inhuman. He hated the thought of war, yet he always said sometimes it was necessary, especially WW2 to rid the world of Hitler and the Nazis.
Our grandmother told us what she knew of his time in WW1, he was in Mons, The Somme, & the Western Front as she said. He was in France from 1914 to 1918 and was gassed and eventually wounded, he had to have plastic surgery to his face. His best mate, Archie Reilly, who had enlisted with him was also seriously wounded.
By the time it was 1918 my grandfather was seriously wounded and traumatized, shell shock as Nana said. After his physical injuries were addressed he was sent to Beaufort War Hospital in the UK. My grandmother didn't know where he was, thought he was missing in action. A friend of my grand-dad had seen him and wrote to my grandmother to inform her he was at Beaufort Hospital. She took along their 5 year old daughter to see him. Nana told us he was in a pitiful state, she couldn't comprehend how changed he was not only physically but also mentally, he was a wreck. She took him home with her, she told us he suffered dreadful nightmares and began to drink heavily, which he eventually got under control. He suffered ill health as a result of his injuries until he died, Neurasthenia and respiratory problems. He was a very good grandfather and father, but he never really smiled. Nana told us his experiences in France changed him forever, yet to his dying breath in 1978 he never shirked his duty.
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