Photo: Brian Chandler
W.A. Reeves
Royal Naval Vol. Reserve
21st January 1915 age 45
For God
my King and my Country.
Colin Boyd has submitted the following:
Walter was born on 27th June 1869. He was working as a Co-op warehouseman living with his wife Mary Ann at 2, Coach Road, Wallsend when he enlisted in the New Army on 4th September 1914.
He transferred to the RNVR on 10th September 1914 and was discharged as medically unfit on 30th October 1914. Walter died on 21st January 1915.
His name does not appear on a local memorial.
