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Private JOSEPH DUNCAN REEKIE

Service Number: 5/28868
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

"B" Coy. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 October 1917

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIRFIELD (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

15. L3.

United Kingdom

Headstone for Joseph Duncan Reekie, born 1886 Burghmuir Perth, son of Joseph Duncan & Elizabeth Thompson Reekie, married Alice Maud Lucas (nee Richardson) 1911, (he was sentenced to a month in prison for assault in 1911)

Photographer: John Ellam

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Duncan Reekie, of Perth; husband of Alice M. Reekie, of 51, Albion St., Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury.
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Buried or commemorated at

MIRFIELD (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 35
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