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John Lindsay Reid


John Lindsay Reid


CWGC:  (J. L. Reid)

Rank: Captain

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 179th Tunneling Company

Date of Death: 18th October 1917

Buried: Dozinghem Military Cemetery


SNWM:   (John Lindsay Reid)

Rank: Training Second Lieutenant, Acting Captain

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 179th Tunneling Company

Date of Death: 18th October 1917

Cause of Death: Died of Wounds


SDGW:   (John Lindsay Reid)

Rank: Training Second Lieutenant, Acting Captain

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 179th Tunneling Company

Date of Death: 18th October 1917

Cause of Death: Died of Wounds


MIC:

John Lindsay Reid, Second Lieutenant/Captain, Royal Engineers. Died of Wounds 18th October 1917.

Medal Entitlement: 1915 Star, British War & Victory Medals

Address: (Father) W. Reid Esq., 15 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow


Soldiers’ Effects:

Captain J. L. Reid, Royal Engineers, Died of Wounds 18th October 1917.


Glasgow Herlald, 24th October 1917. ‘Deaths in Service’

Reid. Died of wounds, 18th October 1917, John Lindsay Reid, Captain, Royal Engineers, aged 29, second son of William Reid, F.S.A.A. (of Reid & Campbell. Accountants, Glasgow) and Mrs Reid, 15 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun, Glasgow


Listed on Glasgow Roll of Honour: John L. Reid, Captain, Royal Engineers, 15 Onslow Drive, Dennistoun.


1901 Census, Living at 2 Firpark Terrace, Dennistoun

Father William Reid, age 44, Accountant, born Mearns, Renfrewshire,

Mother Margaret Reid, age 41, born Glasgow

Children: William Reid, age 14, Scholar, born Glasgow

John L. Reid, age 12, Scholar, born Glasgow

Robert Reid, age 9, Scholar, born Glasgow

Elizabeth D. Reid, age 8, Scholar, born Glasgow