Herbert Reeves

Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 5102

Parents: William and Sarah Ann Reeves (nee Selman)

Marital status: Married

Home address: Hopps Road, Kingswood, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Bootmaker

Date of birth: 1888

Place of birth: Bitton, Bristol

Date of death: 22/08/1917

Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium and Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial

Age: 29

Further information:

Herbert was born in Bitton, the son of a coal miner and the second youngest of ten children with seven sisters and two brothers. Almost all of his older siblings were employed in the boot industry. Herbert married Emily Dix in 1915 in Whitefield's tabernacle a Calvinistic Methodist Church in Kingswood.

Herbert enlisted in 1914 and served with the 1st/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, his battalion mobilised to France in March 1915 where they took part in various actions on the Western Front. Herbert was Killed in Action during the Battle of Passchendaele (the third battle of Ypres) which lasted from 31st July to 10th November 1917 and resulted in combined casualties estimated to be around 800,000 for both allies and Germans. Herbert's body was never identified and the Tyne Cot Memorial where Herbert is commemorated is one of four memorials to the missing in an area of Flanders known as the Ypres Salient, which stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/