Killed in Desert
Lieutenant Reeves was born in New Zealand in 1906. After serving for three years in the Waikato Mounted Rifles, in which he was commissioned in August, 1939, he was seconded in September, 1939, to the Second N.Z.E.F., leaving New Zealand with the Second Echelon in May, 1940, as a second lieutenant in a divisional Cavalry Regiment. He was killed in action in the Western Desert on December 16, 1942. In civil life Lieutenant Reeves was a farmer. -Auckland Star, 29/5/1944.
Charles Reeves served in the 7th (anti-tank) Regiment of the New Zealand Artillery, with a troop of American M10 tank destroyers. They were being used as mobile artillery on their first operation, firing on a castle near Strada in Italy. Charles was observing the fire on foot and was killed by a German shell splinter.
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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