Informationen zu Geburt

Allgemeine Informationen

Beruf:
Arbeiter

Informationen zum Armeedienst

Land:
Wales, Vereinigtes Königreich
Truppe:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Corporal
Dienstnummer:
14238
Einberufung datum:
27/12/1914
Einberufung ort:
Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales, Vereinigtes Königreich
Einheiten:
 —  Devonshire Regiment, 9th Bn.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Informationen zu Tod

Sterbedatum:
24/10/1917
Sterbeort:
Veldhoek, Geluveld, Belgien
Todesursache:
Im Kampf gefallen
Alter:
26

Begräbnisplatz

Tyne Cot Cemetery
Grabstelle: LX
Reihe: D
Grab: 1

Auszeichnungen und Orden 3

1914-15 Star
Medaille — 12/11/1919
British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Punkte von Interesse 3

#1 Geburtsort
#2 Einberufung ort
#3 Ort des Todes (ungefähr)

Meine Geschichte

Corporal Bleddyn Rees served in the Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion, which was part of the 20th Brigade of the 7th Division.

On the 26th of October 1917 the 7th Division participated in the Second Battle of Passchendaele, the final phase of the Third Battle of Ypres. The Division had to attack astride the Menin Road towards the village of Geluveld. This was necessary to prevent the Germans thinning that sector and sending reinforcements further north towards Passchendaele.

Two days before the start of the Second Battle of Passchendaele, the 9th Battalion took up positions in the frontline, near the hamlet of Veldhoek, just northwest of the village of Geluveld. They relieved two Battalions of the 14th Division in the line. The 20th Brigade, among which the 9th Battalion, moved up towards Geluveld in the evening of October 24 1917 to relieve two Battalions, as mentioned above. The relief was completed by 9.30 p.m. During the relief the 2nd Company of the 9th Battalion suffered 27 casualties due to shellfire.

Corporal Bleddyn Rees was killed in action on October 24 1917. He was initially buried near Veldhoek, not far from the Menin Road. It is plausible to assume that Rees was killed due to German shellfire while the Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion moved in the frontline opposite Geluveld. His remains were exhumed after the war and interred in Tyne Cot Cemetery.

Dateien 1

Quellen 2

Atkinson C.T. ,The Devonshire Regiment, 1914-1918, (London, Eland Brothers, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1926, Vol. 1), pg. 274-294.
Verwendete Quellen
McCarthy C., The Third Ypres Passchendaele. The Day-by-Day Account, (London, Arms & Armour Press, 1995), pg. 123-125.
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