Name
Reginald Lloyd Elgood
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/07/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Vanguard
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 20.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford,
Northwood War Memorial, Middlesex,
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Northwood, Middlesex
Pre War
Son of Sir Frank Minshule and Frances Isabel Lloyd (nee ALLEN) ELGOOD of Northwood, Middx.
His parents married 17 November 1891 at All Souls, Hampstead, London. Frances died 18 September 1940 aged 72; Frank died 17 May 1948 aged 83; both in Haywards Heath, Sussex.
Reginald was born 17 February 1896 in Northwood, and baptised 21 March 1896 at Holy Trinity, Northwood.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a naval cadet aged 15, he lived at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon.
Wartime Service
He enrolled 15 January 1909, and joined Vanguard 17 July 1915. He was promoted Acting Sub-Lieutenant 15 May 1915, gazetted 15 November 1915 to Sub-Lieutenant, and promoted to Lieutenant 15 May 1917.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and Star medals, and was killed when his ship was blown up by an internal explosion.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
