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Personal data

• Name GILL
• Initials RH
• First name REGINALD HENRY
• Place of birth Wandsworth
• Country London, England, United Kingdom
• Last residence 'Valala', 16 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
• Family Son of George Henry Gill and Agnes Ellen Bower.
  Brother George Theodore (1881). Reginalds mother died 16 days after his birth. Father remarried with Mary Agnes Kingsnorth (1885) and after her dead, he married again, with Eleanor Pritchard Cooke (1893). Stepbrother: Albert Richard (1894)
• Education Ovingdean School (near Brighton); joined H.M.S. "Worcester" in September 1897 and followed a nautical training. At the end of the two years course he obtained first-class certifications.
• Profession Accountant with the P&O Shipping Company
• Extra info Husband of Laura Jane Back; lived at "Valala," Essex St., Fremantle, Western Australia

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 16 September 1915
• Rank Captain
• Medals M C, 1914-1915 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 28th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Joined the 11th Australian Garrison Artillery (volunteer force) in 1913 as a 2nd Lieutenant; resigned in March 1914. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 28th Bat. of the A.I.F. in September 1915; embarked for Alexandria in January 1916; embarked for Marseilles in March 1916; billets at Morbecque; Scout Officer; first Australian trench raid of the war (June 1916); Somme (July 1916); promoted to Lieutenant (August 1916) and to Captain (October 1916); Reninghelst (September 1916); wounded at left wrist - London General Hospital (November 1916); received MC from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 22 November 1916; discharged from hospital in January 1917; Rollestone training camp; again admitted to hospital (mumps); embarked for France in June 1917; Cassel training; Canal area Ypres, 18 September 1917; Battle of Menin Road.
  
  
  M C 'For conspicuous gallantry and good work when in charge of Battalion Scouts. On
  one occasion he cut wire to within 5 ye.rds
  of an enemy poet, and then successfully
  withdrew his1 party. On another he guided
  an assaulting party up to the point in the
  enemy trenches selected for a raid.' (LG 25/07/1916)

Death

• Wounded In a camp between Reninghelst and Poperinghe; bomb dropped after dark on the 28 September; many wounded; one of them was Captain Gill; another, McIntosh William Stuart, also buried in LMC.
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 28 September 1917
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - B - 20

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