Private Herbert Reed, Service Number 325397

Private Herbert Reed, Service Number 325397

1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment

Died 31st July 1917, aged 20

La Brique Military Cemetery, No. 2 St Jean Les Ypres, Belgium: Plot 1, Row A, Grave 12 (Reg. Belgium 92)

Son of George and Sarah Reed, 5 Crampton’s Terrace, Sawston

Only a lad, he died in the bitter fighting at Passchendaele.

A Sawston choir boy and bell ringer, one can find a plaque in his honour in Saint Mary’s Church, Sawston.