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FLIGHT LIEUTENANT FREDERICK F. HOLMES REILLY
19 April 1898-28 May 1918
WELLAND AVIATOR REPORTED MISSING
Official Messsage Brings Unfortunate News of Fred Reilly
He Had Been With the Allied Forces in France Since the First of April
[Welland Telegraph, 7 June 1918]
Mr. and Mrs. Joliffe D. Reilly, Maple avenue, were officially notified on Tuesday that their youngest son, Flight Lieut. Fred Reilly, with the British aviation forces in France, was reported missing on May 28th. The message was delayed in receipt having been sent to Willard, Manitoba, instead of Welland.
Further news is, of course, very anxiously awaited.
The young man is 20 years of age and after completing his course last year, went overseas in August, He had been on the fighting front for two months and had been very busily engaged in the air offensive that has been carried on by British aviators behind the German lines. From the beginning of his training he developed a great fondness and aptitude for the airplane and was more than ordinarily efficient.
His only brother, Capt. James Reilly, has been overseas for three years with Col. Ashton’s battalion. His cousin, Capt. J.R. Reilly, was wounded at St. Julian, and again suffered wreck when the Hesperian was shelled. His cousin, Hugh Reilly, after being at the front with the artillery for a year is now in England training as an aviator.
The Telegraph expresses the heartfelt wish of many friends that favorable news of Flight Lieut. Reilly may come speedily, for his own sake and for the sake of those plunged in deepest anxiety.
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