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• Name REID
• Initials JM
• First name JAMES MANSFIELD
• Place of birth Williamstown
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of George Watson Reid and Lillias Margaret Reid, of "Clyde," Sackville St., Kew East, Victoria, Australia
• Profession Civil Engineer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria on 26 July 1915
• Rank Lieutenant
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 2nd Field Coy. Australian Engineers
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Sydney on 11 December 1915; to France on 28 March 1916;
  M C ' For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
  duty in the successful construction of a
  strong point just behind the front line,
  though badly hampered by the loss of three
  N.'C.CVs. During the whole of the time his
  work was subjected to the heaviest shell fire.' (LG 05/04/1918)

Death

• Wounded 26 October, dug out Passchendaele, struck by a sniper's bullet
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds on right side at n°10 CCS
• Date of death 30 October 1917
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - BB - 18

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