BORN HULL 1896. SON OF HAROLD & MARGARET GREY OF 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 WITH HIS FATHER HAROLD AS A CLERK FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 26/8/1916. SERVED WITH THE 10TH WEST 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, WITH HIS FATHER, HAROLD GREY, RGA WHO DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS WHILST ON SERVICE, IN 1917, AGED 48.
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 TO HIS MOTHER, MARGARET GREY. SHE WAS REFUSED A WAR PENSION FOR NO PRIOR DEPENDENCE,
