Alfred Mills Reep

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Second Lieutenant ALFRED MILLS REEP

"B" Coy. 6th Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry who died age 19 on Saturday 16 September 1916. Second Lieutenant REEP, Son of Lieut. Comdr. Alfred Reep, R.N., and Ada Emma Reep, of 2, Molesworth Terrace, Torpoint, Cornwall.

Remembered with honour THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

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In Memory of

ALFRED MILLS REEP

Second Lieutenant "B" Coy. 6th Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

who died on Saturday 16 September 1916 . Age 19 .

Additional Information: Son of Lieut. Comdr. Alfred Reep, R.N., and Ada Emma Reep, of 2, Molesworth Terrace, Torpoint, Cornwall. Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIALSomme, France Grave or Reference Panel Number: Pier and Face 6 B Location: The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the mainBapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. Visiting Information: The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels. Historical Information: On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resistedtenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an originalobjective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared defences, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in March 1918. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot ofthe memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of France, on 31 July 1932. The dead of other Commonwealth countries who died on the Somme and have no known graves are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere.

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Births Dec 1896 ------------------------------------------------------------- Reep Alfred Mills St. Germans 5c 32 tisberry

Reference: CO 323/819/45 Description: The late Mr A M Reep: formal application by Mrs A E Reep for any moneys due her son during his time as Second Division Clerk in the ColonialOffice. Original Correspondence From: Mrs A E Reep, Torpoint, Cornwall. Folio(s): 451-454 Date: 1919 Jan-1919 Oct Held by: The National Archives, Kew Former reference in its original department 57819/1919 Legal status: Public Record(s) Language: English Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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