Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

11/05/1915

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Known as 'Bruce'

Date of Birth

19/10/1893

Place of Birth

Brindabella via Queanbeyan NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Brindabella NSW

School(s) Attended

Private School, Brindabella NSW

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Son of William Reid and Sarah (nee McDonald) Reid of Brindabella NSW

Burial Place

29 (The Ypres) Menin Gate Memorial Belgium

Service Number

2431

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

45 Battalion AIF

Died (killed in action) at Passchendaele, Belgium, 10 October 1917 aged 23 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 140, Canberra ACT
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT
Memorial plaque in porch of Christ Church, Queanbeyan NSW
World War 1 Memorial, corner of Lowe St and Farrer Place, Queanbeyan NSW
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Bruce Reid was baptised at St. John the Baptist Church of England in Canberra. He was working at Portland (in NSW) when he enlisted. Reid embarked with the 7th reinforcements to the 13th Battalion in August 1915 and arrived in Egypt in January 1916 where he was transferred to the 45th Battalion in March 1916. He served on the Western Front at Flers and at Messines but was reported missing, believed killed in action near Passchendaele, Belgium on 10 October 1917. Reid was a Lewis gunner and his company was taking up a position on the Ypres-Roulers railway near Zonnebeke when he was killed by a shell. His body was not recovered.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 167 pounds, chest 34-36½ inches, sallow complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
AWM Collections Record : P04703.001
First World War Nominal Roll
First World War unit Embarkation Rolls
Peter Procter, Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan, Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001, p. 265.
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Jean Salisbury, 'Canberra: St. John's Churchyard 1844-1998', Canberra 2000
Queanbeyan Age - 26 April 1918, 1 October 1918
The Canberra Times - 25 April 1992
Image by permission of Claire Lewis
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)