Name

Robert Reid.

Description

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate relating to Private Robert Reid.

Life Story

Name: Robert Reid.

Service Number: 8198.

Rank: Private.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion.

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Born: Lisburn.

Died: 23rd July 1916.

Address: 78 Westmoreland Street, Belfast

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Richard Reid, son of John and Jane Reid, is connected to 78 Westmoreland Street, Shankill, Belfast

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Robert joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 23rd August 1914.

Robert was a Private in 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he Died of Wounds Received in Action on the 23rd July 1916

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A local newspaper states

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THE RANK AND FILE.

Mrs S Porter, 18 Primitive Street, Belfast, has received official intimation that her brother, Lance Corporal Robert Reid, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has died of wounds received in action. A brother of deceased, Corporal Richard Reid, was killed on 6th August 1915, and his wife and child reside at 80 Westmoreland Street, Belfast

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Robert Soldiers Effects were left to his father.

His Pension Application Form shows his father as claimant and as living at 44 Teutonic Street, Belfast at time of applying.

Dependant Pension Application Forms show his father as claimant also.

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See brother also: 8527 Corporal Richard Reid 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

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Robert received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star.

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He is Remembered at Abbeville Communal Cemetery, France.

To Remember Is To Honour

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