Albert Joseph Rees

No / Rank: 37958 Private
Regiment: East Yorkshire Rgt.
Battalion: 2nd
Born: Maesteg, Glam.
Enlisted: Newport
Residence: Dranllwyn, Macken
Date Died: 11.01.18
How Died: Died
Theatre of War: Salonika

Brigade:83rd Division:28th (Regular Army)

Died on Friday 11th, January 1918, Aged 20. Son of Joseph and Mary Anne Rees of Picton House Park Crescent, Machen Newport Mon. Buried at Struma Military Cemetery, 65kms north of Thessalonika.

The Battalion Diary for January records that the Division was stationed near Turica and had been suffering the effects of heavy rain and blizzards. On 11th January Major General Holt had been ‘inspecting malarial patients’. It was on the 11th that Private Albert Rees died of Blackwater Fever a, very severe complication of Malaria.

Private Albert Rees is also commemorated on a family memorial in St Johns Churchyard, Machen.

‘Sweet be thy rest our dear son’

Struma Cemetery.

Struma Centry.

Doiran Memorial. A battlefield memorial and a memorial to the missing.

Doiran Memorial Inscription.