REED Sydney George Herbert Lieut

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Surname: REED;

Forename(s): Sydney George Herbert;

Initials: SGH;

Rank: Lieut;

Resided in: Swindon;

Previous Number: 45833;

Previous Regiment: MGC;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 122 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 123 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 104 Bn;

How killed: D;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 24-Dec-1918;

Other Data: Dean Close School Memorial Register - Died of influenza at Courtrai - Portrait (GS Archives)
MH106 - 139FA - 21/11/17-25/2/1918: PUO, aged 24
See Article about 123 Coy, Emma Gee, Summer 2003, p 41
Extract from "Tell Them of Us" Swindon's Sons of the Great War (Mark Sutton) 2006 - photograph (p294) of stained glass window Christchurch, with inscription reading "To the glory of God and the memory of the Men of the Wiltshire Regt and Lt Sidney GH Reed, 104 Bn MGC, who died in the service of the Country in the Great War 1914-1918.";

Other Notes: REED, Lieutenant, SYDNEY GEORGE HERBERT, 104th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 24th December 1918. Age 25. Son of Thomas and Kate Reed, of Sanford House, Swindon, Wilts. Born at Malmesbury, Wilts. B. 5. Kortrijk (St.-Jan) Communal Cemetery - Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.;

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