Current Information:

Age-30

7, White Thorne Court, Prusom Road, Wapping

Calais Southern Cemetery, France

During the first two weeks of July 1916, 1st Royal Fusiliers of 17 Brigade, 24th Division were holding the line at Kemmel in Belgium, a few miles to the south of Ypres. At this time all attention was focused on the epic struggle taking place some 50 miles to the south on the Somme but that is not  to say that fighting elsewhere came to a standstill. The usual practices of trench warfare still prevailed; artillery bombardments, snipers and patrols were still a regular occurrence and men continued to be killed and wounded along the whole stretch of the line. Reuben Vincent died of wounds on 7th July after having been evacuated back to a base hospital in Calais. As yet there is no information as to where and when he was wounded.