REEVE, Maurice Beatty

5343430 Lance Sergeant, 2nd Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Born 1916 Grimsby

Died 13/11/1944, Age 28 at Preston Royal Infirmary

Buried 16/11/1944

Son of William James Reeve and Rose Hannah Parker,

Husband of Isadora Alice Smith, married 1940 in Cleethorpes

Father of Lorna (died aged 7 weeks on 03/03/1943) and Maurice (born in late 1944)

Address at time of death: 118 Tiverton Street, Cleethorpes

Isadora re-married in 1948 to James G. Wood

08/07/1944 – reported as wounded in action on casualty lists

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/69/a2618769.shtml

“The 2nd Battalion landed on Queen beach, a sub-division of Sword on 6th June 1944. The 1/7th Battalion joined them on the 29th June and both took part in the fighting around Caen. The first engagement for the 1/7th was on the 8th July to capture the village of St Contest. It was a hard fought battle as they were up against the first-rate 25th SS Panzer Grenadiers. Even so by 6.30pm they had reached their objective having lost 26 men and 96 wounded. By the end of August the Allies had secured Normandy and the Germans were retreating.”