Name
Reginald Samuel Patmore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/3083
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 95 to 97.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell
Pre War
Born in 1895 in Matching, Colchester, Essex son of Joseph and Lucy Patmore. He was living in Betts Lane, Nazeing, Essex in 1901 and Goldings Farm Cottages, Netteswells, Harlow in 1911 later in Glebe Lodge, Great Amwell, Ware. He was a gardener.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 9 Sep 1914 at Stratford into the newly formed battalion and after training at Shoreham and Worthing entered France on 30 Aug 1915. On 26 Sep 1915 the battalion was annihilated at Loos in its first engagement. Of 24 Officers and 800 men who went into action, only 1 Officer and 250 men remained.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
