Name
Reginald Denman Apps
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 30.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Guildford War Memorial, Surrey
Pre War
Son of Benjamin Charles and Mary Florence (nee PEACOCK) APPS of Guildford.
His parents married 6 September 1892 at St Mary’s, Watford. Mary died 1927 in the Guildford district aged 62. Benjamin remarried 1928 in the Kingston, Surrey, district to Constance Margaret Lorn Campbell STRICKLAND, and died 25 September 1935 aged 64. Constance died 10 April 1959 aged 71, and was buried 16 April 1959 in Charlton Cemetery, London.
There is an article about Benjamin in Watford in the 20th Century volume 1, amongst the Movers & Shakers: Watford.
Reginald was born 26 June 1893 in Watford, and baptised 28 July 1893 at St Mary’s, Watford. He was educated at Cumberland House School, Gravesend, Kent, from 1904 to 1906; and Dartford School, Kent, from 1907 to 1911.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census a clerk to the District Valuer aged 17, he lived in Guildford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He attested 15 September 1914 at Westminster, in the 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, no. 4384: a valuer aged 21 of Guildford, Surrey, 5’7½” tall. He had previously served in the Surrey Yeomanry (Territorials) for two years; and was discharged from the Fusiliers on gaining a Sandhurst Cadetship 10 November 1914. He served at Home from 15 September to 10 November 1914. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star Medals, his qualifying date being 12 April 1915, and was reported missing 17 May 1915 after leading a bayonet charge at L’Avoue near Richebourg. He was presumed killed in action, his body was never found. His next-of-kin was his father of Guildford.
Additional Information
There is an article about Reginald in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 29 January 1916.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
