Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Daours Communal Cemetery Ext
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
4 Feb 1917 at Etaples	~	Alderminster
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted Date	Other War Memorials
Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin	Sydney, NSW
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
53rd Casualty Clearing Centre, Vecquemont	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Reginald was wounded by a shell explosion which hit him in the lumber region on tjhe 31 Aug 1918 during the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin when the Australian Corps crossed the River Somme and broke the German Lines at Mont Saint-Quentin and Peronne in what the British Fourth Army's commander, General Henry Rawlinson, described as the greatest military achievement of the war. Click here  for a 21 page essay / description of the battle from the Australian Government War Memorial Archives written by Katherine Smith. Reginald was taken to the 53rd Casualty Clearing Centre, which at that time was located at Vecquemont, where he died 3 days laters on 2 Sep 1918