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Born: 10 November 1893
Died: 6 June 1915
Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Wounded - G.S.W. (gunshot wound), head - the next day.
Evacuated to hospital in Alexandria.
Private Harry Morrell Reeve, 1st Battalion, wounded at the Dardanelles, landed at Gaba Tepe on the Sunday, and was wounded in the head on the Monday, and is now in the Alexandria Hospital. He is the youngest son of Mr and Mrs. Henry Reeve, of "Arno," Wolseley-road, Mosman. Born at Mosman 21 years ago, a member of the Mosman Amateur Swimming Club, he has represented the club in the Northern Suburbs championships on more than one occasion. He is a good all-round swimmer, and was educated at the Mosman Superior Public School.
Evening News (Sydney), Saturday 19 June 1915
Rejoined 1st Battalion, Gallipoli, 14 May 1915.
Wounded a second time, in a bayonet attack on German Officer's Trench on 5 June 1915.
Died of wounds next day on board Hospital Ship Sicilia. Buried at sea, two miles off Anzac.
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- REEVE Harry Morrell : Service Number - 179 : Place of Birth - Sydney NSW : Place of Enlistment - Kensington NSW : Next of Kin - (Father) REEVE H (item)
- Discovering Anzacs - Harry Morrell Reeve (webpage)
- Find War Dead – Reeve, Harry Morrell (webpage)
- HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES. PRIVATE H M REEVE (Mosman). (newspaper article)
- N.S.W. HONOR ROLL. PRIVATE H. REEVE, 1st Battalion, of Mosman, wounded. (newspaper article)
- SWIMMERS AND THE WAR. (newspaper article)
- MEN OF THE DARDANELLES. PRIVATE H. M. REEVE. (newspaper article)
- Family Notices. IN MEMORIAM. REEVE.-Harry Morrell ("Beaver") (newspaper article)
- PRIVATE H. REEVE, 1st Battalion, of Mosman, wounded. (photograph)
- PRIVATE H M REEVE (Mosman). Wounded. (photograph)
- Pte. H M REEVE. (webpage)
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- REEVE H. M. on the West Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Reeve, H.M. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour
- Reeve, H on the St Clement's World War 1 Roll of Honour
- REEVE H.M. on the Mosman Football Club (Rugby Union) Roll of Honour