Leslie is named on the plaque in St.Mary's church, Haverhill
No.43550, Private, Leslie REEVE
Aged 21
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Leslie Reeve was born in Glemsford in 1895 (Q3 Sudbury 4a:767, the son of Robert and Rachel REEVE (née KING)
Leslie's father Robert was born in Blythburgh, the son of an agricultural labourer but he found employment as a Police Officer. By the time he was 20 he was lodging in Bury St Edmunds and the following year he married Rachel King. By 1891 they and their growing family were living in Whepstead. With promotion to Police Inspector the family moved to the Police Station in Glemsford followed by a posting to the Police Station in Haverhill. 1901 census... Aged 5, Leslie was at the Police Station, Glemsford with his father Robert [39] police inspector born Blythburgh; his mother Rachel [42] born Hengrave; sisters Constance [15] a pupil school teacher, born Whepstead and Hilda [10] born Whepstead; brother Albert [14] a grocer's apprentice, born Whepstead. 1911 census...Aged 15, a grocer's apprentice, Leslie was at the Police Sation, Haverhill wth his parents. He was working for Mr T Jarvis, who had grocery and drapery shops in the High Street. He was still working for him when he enlisted in the Suffolk Yeomanry. |
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He enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds, in the Suffolk Regiment (2340) and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry. At the end of July 1916 he was posted to France where he was
involved in action around Thiepval in the Battle of the Somme. His pension card has not been found.
 
and on the war memorial at Ixworth click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
