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Canadian & French gleaners interested in an aeroplane. "is it a Boche?" August, 1917. This photograph shows William Rider-Rider's driver, named Burstall, and his assistant, Cpl. Percy Reeves, posed interacting with female French farm workers, who are "gleaning" a field. Gleaning is the practice of salvaging left-over crops from a field after the commercial harvest.

Corporal Percy Harper Reeves in the Great War

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Married to the Pecqueur Sisters of St-Pol-sur-Ternoise Corporal Percy Harper Reeves 422314 enlisted with the 44th Battalion, at twenty-two years of age, in Winnipeg on 18 March 1915. He stood 5′ 8″ tall, with a…