Photo Gallery - New Additions, November 2008 (Photo Gallery)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Friday, November 07, 2008, 20:12 (5870 days ago)

Sent to us by Dennis E Meek

Corporal E J Meek
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/gallery/ruardean_2/

As the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War is approaching I thought it
might be a suitable addition to the picture gallery. His name is on the
memorial tablet in Ruardean Parish Church. Below is the Casualty detail as
forwarded by the CWGC:-

Name: MEEK
Initials: E J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Regiment/Service: Herefordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st/1st Bn
Date of Death: 06/11/1917
Service No: 235282
Additional information: Husband of Mrs. A.E.Davies (formally Meek), of 10, Mill Row, Lower
Lydbrook, Glos.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: E. 34
Cemetery: Beersheba War Cemetary