Name
Reginald H Kerrison
16/01/1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/1064
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial, London Colney Roll of Honour
Pre War
Reginald Harry KERRISON was born in St Pancras, London/Middlesex, on 16th January 1886, son of George Kerrison, a retired Army Pensioner now working as a Bricklayer and Rachel Kerrison (nee Keenan). One of their sixteen children although seven died in childhood.
His parents married in 1871, in Kinsale, Ireland, his father was a serving soldier at the time.
1891 Census records Reginald aged 5, at school, living with his parents, four sisters and three brothers, at 38 Pratt Street, St Pancras, London/Middlesex.
1901 Census records Reginal aged 15, working as an Errand Boy, living with his parents, two brothers Albert (28), John (3) and five sisters at 38 Pratt Street, St Pancras, London/Middlesex.
Reginald married Sarah Ann Lunnon the daughter of William and Phoebe Lunnon, on 6th September 1908, at All Saints Church, St Pancras, Camdon, London. They went on to have one daughter Patricia Frances Minnie Kerrison in April 1914. Their marriage certificate records Reginald as “Reginald Harry Keenan Kerrison”.
1911 Census records Reginal aged 25, married to Sarah, they are living at 88 Castle Street, Kentish Town, London, he is employed as a Horse Keeper.
In 1914 the family were living at 105 Castle Road, London, Reginald was employed as a Coal Porter.
Wartime Service
Reginald enlisted in London, posted to 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), issued with the service number G/1064.
The 6th Battalion, was raised in August 1914, carrying out their training at Purfleet, Essex, they were mobilized for war service and completed their final training at Aldershot, Hampshire. They proceeded to France between 29th May and 1st June 1915, landing at Boulogne. Reginald arrived on 1st June 1915.
Seeing action on the Western Front, Reginal was Killed in Action on 3rd May 1917, aged 31, during the First Battle of the Scarpe (First Battle of the Scarp 9th April – 4th May 1917) he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing. Bay 2.
Additional Information
His effects of £3-01s-10d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £12-10s-00d, went to his widow Sarah Ann Kerrison.
His elder brother Colour Sergeant 1022 William George Kerrison of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, attached to the 2nd battalion, Nigerian Regiment West Africa Fronter Force, died on 24th November 1916, in West Africa, of Blackwater Fever, complications of Malaria.
Sarah remarried on 27th July 1918, at St Nickolas, Church Lane, Tooting, London, to George H. Singleton.
1921 Census records his parents George and Rachel, and sister Rachel Kerrison, living in Kings Road, London Colney, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
