John Reinecker

Private John Arno Reinecker was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Hartlepool, the son of German-born August Franz and his wife Margaret Reinecker (née Berriman), who was local to the area. At the time of the 1911 Census, Reinecker was working as a grocer's assistant while living with his family at 37 Tower Street.
Reinecker died on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Somme Offensive, while serving with the 18th (Service) Battalion (1st County), The Durham Light Infantry. The battalion, informally known as the 'Durham Pals', had been tasked with helping to capture the village of Serre, and suffered more than 300 casualties over a four-day period.The First Day of the Battle of the Somme (PDF), dlidurham.org.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2015. His younger brother, Frank, died in January 1917 with the Northumberland Fusiliers.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Reinecker, John A, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
Category:1894 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Privates