Leopold Reincke

Captain Leopold Frederick Reincke was an English officer of the Royal Flying Corps who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1887, in Camberwell, the son of German civil engineer Hans Roderich Leopold and Annie Sophia Reincke (née Wattenbach), of London. Reincke was educated at Dulwich College Preperatory School and Dulwich College itself. He was in Egypt on the outbreak of war in 1914, but immediately returned to Britain, being subsequently commissioned in the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).The Times (41565), Col D, p. 4: "Fallen Officers". 24 August 1917.
Reincke was then employed in the instruction and training of troops in Britain until October 1916, when he was dispatched to the Western Front. As a captain, in command of a company of the 10th Dukes, he fought in the Somme Offensive. Reincke went on to transfer to the Royal Flying Corps, joining the 48th Squadron. He was mortally wounded on 17 August 1917, when his Bristol F.2. fighter, in which he was an observer, was attacked while on patrol. The pilot, Second Lieutenant H.F. Gough, brought the aircraft home.Guttman, Jon (2007), Bristol F2 Fighter Aces of World War I, p. 14. Reincke had only returned to the front on the 8th.
He is buried in Zuydcoote Military Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Reincke, L F, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
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