Arthur Harold Reeve

A Private with the 2nd Battalion, Arthur died between 10 May and 26 June 1940, aged 27. 

Arthur was born at Pakefield in 1913, a son of Jack and Sarah Florence Reeve. In 1921 his family lived at 2 Wellington Road, Pakefield. By 1939 his widowed mother lived at 22 Edgerton Road. 

Arthur joined the Royal Norfolk Regiment and served in the 1st Battalion in India and saw active service on the North-West Frontier and was awarded the India General Service Medal. By 1939 Arthur had joined the Army Reserve. Recalled for service on the outbreak of World War Two Arthur was posted to the 2nd Battalion. 

In May 1940 the 2nd Battalion held the line of the La Bassee Canal, France, to cover the general retreat to Dunkirk. 
It is not possible to say exactly what happened to Arthur. Official casualty list 243, dated 28 June 1940, shows Arthur as one of several men from his battalion who were missing on ‘date not recorded’: two of these men were killed in the massacre at Le Paradis. Casualty list 433, dated 8 February 1941, states that Arthur was ‘killed in action’ at some point between 10 May and 26 June 1940’.