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12/11/2021
12/11/2021 Corporal Alexander Reid is also commemorated on the Great Northern Railway WWI Memorial which resides in Belfast Central Railway Station.
12/11/2021 Corporal Alexander Reid has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, nine kilometres north east of Ypres town centre in Belgium
12/11/2021 Lance Corporal Alexander Reid arrived in France with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 5th October 1915.
12/11/2021 The 1911 census lists Alex as age 32, a boarder at house 1 in Foyle Road, Londonderry. He was a railway clerk.
12/11/2021 The 1901 census lists Alexander as age 22, living at house 9 in Finelly, Benburb, Tyrone. He was a farm servant.
12/11/2021 Known family: George Reid, Elizabeth Reid, Alexander Reid (born 14th February 1878), Eliza Reid (born 27th May 1879), Annie Reid?
12/11/2021 Alexander Reid was born on 14th February 1878 in Dungannon.
12/11/2021 Alexander Reid was the only son of George and Elizabeth Reid. George Reid and Eliza Stuart were married on 15th April 1877 in the district of Dungannon.
12/11/2021 Corporal Alexander Reid is commemorated locally on Dungannon War Memorial.
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30/12/2015
30/12/2015 The CWGC records Corporal Alexander Reid as the son of George and Elizabeth Reid of Annaginney, Dungannon, County Tyrone.
30/12/2015 From the Tyrone Courier and Dungannon News dated Thursday 24 October 1918:
30/12/2015
30/12/2015 Never will his memory fade
30/12/2015 Corporal Alex Reid, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 29th September 1918 by a German sniper while attending to his officer's wounds, was the only son of the late Mr George Reid of Annaginney, Carland, and brother of Miss Reid, and Mrs Caldwell, of Tullylake, Donaghmore, and a nephew of Mr Gerard Steward, of Creevagh, Carland. The deceased had been for over 20 years a clerk in the service of the Great Northern Railway Company, having been employed at Derry and other places. His officer writes to his relatives stating that the deceased had been a good soldier and was beloved by all his comrades. The chaplain of his regiment also writes paying tribute to the attention which the deceased paid to his religious duties.
30/12/2015 Alex Reid worked for twenty years as a clerk in the service of the Great Northern Railway Company, having been employed at Derry and other places.
30/12/2015 Alexander Reid was the brother of Miss Reid, and Mrs Caldwell, of Tullylake, Donaghmore.
30/12/2015 From the Tyrone Courier and Dungannon News dated Thursday 25 September 1919:
30/12/2015 Corporal Alexander Reid was with the 2nd Battalion of Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on 29th September 1918 by a German sniper while attending to his officer's wounds.
30/12/2015 REID – In loving memory of my dear brother, 19072 Corporal Alexander Reid, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, killed in action at Ypres on 29th September 1918.
30/12/2015 Far and oft my thoughts do wander
30/12/2015 To a grave far, far away,
30/12/2015 Where they laid my dearest brother,
30/12/2015 Alexander enlisted in Londonderry.
30/12/2015 He will never be forgotten,
30/12/2015 My sweetest thoughts will ever linger.
30/12/2015 Out in France, where he is laid.
30/12/2015 Ever remembered by his loving sister Annie Caldwell, Tullynure, Donaghmore.
30/12/2015
30/12/2015 Just one year ago today.
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