Name
Reginald Roberts Meadows
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/08/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
17285
Bedfordshire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHESHAM BURIAL GROUND
G. 49.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
AT PERFECT REST AFTER DUTY NOBLY DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Chesham War Memorial, Bucks
Pre War
Reginald Roberts Meadows was born in Tring (Berkhamsted Registration District) in 1892 the son of Harry (Henry) and Minnie Meadows (nee Jeffs) and one of nine children, although two died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 398 Berkhamsted Road, Chesham, Bucks where his father was working as a stonemason. In 1911 they had moved to 98 Sunnyside Road, Chesham and Reginald was then working as a grocers assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, served as Lance Corporal with 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, serving in France from 3 September 1915.
He died of wounds in Kings Hospital, London, on 31 August 1917, aged 25 and was buried in Chesham Burial Ground, Chesham, Bucks on 5 September 1917 with full military honours.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £5 6s 2d, he ordered his headstone inscription while living at 98 Sunnyside Road, Chesham, Bucks, which reads: "AT PERFECT REST AFTER DUTY NOBLY DONE".
His mother received a pension of £3 6s a week, which was later increased to five shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk
