Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

05/10/1915

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Gundaroo NSW

Address (at enlistment)

'Stoneville', Gundaroo NSW

School(s) Attended

Mugwill Public School

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Son of John James and Sarah Ann Reid of 'Stoneville', Gundaroo NSW

Burial Place

France 40 Etaples Military Cemetery, plot 22, row B, grave 5

Service Number

3591

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

18 Battalion AIF

Died of wounds 19 March 1917 aged 20 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 86, Canberra ACT
St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold, p. 63 (which includes a 'Reid, Private J.J.')
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT (Reid, J.J.)
Gundaroo War Memorial, corner of Cork Street and Harp Street, Gundaroo NSW

The only evidence of Reid's connection with Canberra is the St. John's Church Roll of Honour as Gundaroo was part of the church's parish in the early 1900s. Reid was severely wounded by a bullet to the head on 26 February 1917 at Malt Trench near Warlencourt (between Pozieres and Bapaume). He was taken to the 1st Canadian General Hospital but died of his wounds on 19 March 1917. His father 'Anzac Jack' served on Gallipoli and another brother enlisted in 1918.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
First World War Nominal Roll
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold, p. 63 (which includes a 'Reid, Private J.J.')
Lyall, Gillespie, 'A Pictorial History of the Read/ Reid Family in Australia 1849-1979'
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)