Name
Reginald Henry Victor Burges
15/04/1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/10/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Staff Serjeant
A/1169
Army Ordnance Corps
attd. 1st Bn. Norfolk Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
S. II. M. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
AT REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Reginald Henry Victor Burges was born in Enfield Lock, Middlesex, on 15th April 1889, son of William Muir Burges an, Armourer in the Army Ordnance Corps and Alice Sarah Burges (nee Holden).
His father William was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1856, a career soldier, who enlisted in Edinburgh, with the 93rd Highlanders. Reginald’s parents were married at St. Botolph Without Bishopsgate, in the City of London on 24th April 1884. His father died at Reading, Berks, on 3rd February 1904, aged 48, while serving as Armourer Sergeant Major, 458. William Muir Burges, of the Army Ordnance Corps, attached to the Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Reginald was Baptised at St. James Church, Enfield Highway, Middx, on 9th June 1889.
His mother Alice died in Dover, Kent, in October 1898, aged 44.
No further records were found for Reginald until the 1911 Census which records Reginald aged 22, single and an Armourer in the Army Ordnance Corps (following in his fathers’ footsteps) and stationed at the Military Barracks, Tower Hill, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Reginald married Violet Edith Norcott the daughter of Samuel and Ellen Norcott of Waltham Cross, Herts, in 1914, they went on to have one son Reginald Victor Burges.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Reginald was a serving soldier with the Army Ordnance Corps. Seeing service on the Wester Front.
Armourer Staff Sergeant A/1169 Reginald Henry Victor Burges died of Pneumonia at No. 1 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France, on 17th October 1918, at the time of his death he was attached to 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
Additional Information
His widow Violet of 21 Eleanor Road, Waltham Cross, Herts, received a widow’s pension of 24/2 a week from 28th April 1919. His effects were split between Violet and son Reginald, Pay Owing £10-00s-10d to Violet and £21-01s-07d, to Reginald. His War Gratuity £9-16s-8d to Violet and £19-13s-4d to Reginald. His Headstone inscription “AT REST IN PEACE” was requested by his widow Violet Edith Burges.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
