BORN HULL 1896. SON OF HAROLD & MARGARET GREY – 13 FREEHOLD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 21, QUEENSGATE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A SHIPPING CLERK. HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, CYRIL AND TWO ELDER SISTERS, DORIS AND ETHIL GWENDOLEN.
BEFORE THE WAR REGINALD WORKED AS A CLERK FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 26/8/1916. SERVED WITH THE 10THWEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROCEEDED TO THE FRONT ON 10TH JULY 1915. HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM HOME LEAVE, FIVE WEEKS BEFORE HE WAS KILLED, ON 05/05/1916, AGED 21.
HIS COMMANDING OFFICER DESCRIBED “HIS STERLING QUALITIES, EFFICIENT AND POPULAR WITH BOTH OFFICERS AND MEN, HE MADE A VERY GOOD NCO.”
HE IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE CRICKET & ATHLETIC CLUB’S ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 15TH MAY 1916. *
HE IS BURIED AT CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES, NORD, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TOHIS MOTHER, MARGARET GREY. SHE WAS REFUSED A WAR PENSION FOR NO PRIOR DEPENDENCE,
