Cpl
Bleddyn Rees

Informatie over geboorte

Geboortejaar:
1891
Geboorteplaats:
Pantperthog, Merionethshire, Wales, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Algemene Informatie

Beroep:
Arbeider

Informatie legerdienst

Land:
Wales, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Strijdmacht:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Corporal
Service nummer:
14238
Dienstneming datum:
27/12/1914
Dienstneming plaats:
Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Wales, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Eenheden:
 —  Devonshire Regiment, 9th Bn.  (Laatst gekende eenheid)

Informatie over overlijden

Datum van overlijden:
24/10/1917
Plaats van overlijden:
Veldhoek, Geluveld, Belgiƫ
Doodsoorzaak:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Leeftijd:
26

Begraafplaats

Tyne Cot Cemetery
Plot: LX
Rij: D
Graf: 1

Onderscheidingen en medailles 3

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

Points of interest 3

#1 Geboorteplaats
#2 Dienstneming plaats
#3 Plaats van overlijden (bij benadering)

Mijn verhaal

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.

Bestanden 1

Bronnen 2

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

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