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Informations personnelles
- GILL
- RH
- REGINALD HENRY
- Wandsworth
- London, England, United Kingdom
- 'Valala', 16 Essex Street, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
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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) - 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.
- Accountant with the P&O Shipping Company
- Husband of Laura Jane Back; lived at "Valala," Essex St., Fremantle, Western Australia
Données militaires
- 16 September 1915
- Captain
- M C, 1914-1915 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
- 28th Bn. Australian Infantry
- 7th Brigade
- 2nd Australian Division
- A.I.F.
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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)
Décès
- 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.
- Killed in action
- 28 September 1917
- 35
- XXIV - B - 20
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