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Reginald Arthur Harris

On Ancestry site Military records
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2/Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Harris, 4 and, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire
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Regiment), killed in action 9 October 1917. Under comments it stated that he was attached
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to the 9 Battalion. Buried Cement House Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, Belgium.)

2/Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Harris – source: www.findagrave.com

Remembered on County High School memorial, Redditch, (now Trinity High School) and Astwood Bank war
memorial.

(On Ancestry site Probate records, Reginald Arthur Harris of Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, second lieutenant
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4 Battalion, (attached 9 service Battalion) West Yorkshire Regiment died 9 October 1917, on active service
in Belgium. On the 1891 census Reginald Arthur Harris, aged 1, born in Astwood Bank, lived with his parents
Henry James and Sarah Harris and sibling In Evesham road, Astwood Bank. )

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 20 October
1917

Astwood Bank Men Killed in Action - Mr and Mrs H. J. Harris, of Evesham Road, Astwood Bank,
were on Saturday the recipients of a telegram informing them of the death in action of their
youngest son, Sec.-Lieut. Reginald A. Harris of the West Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed
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on the 9 ins. Lieut. Harris, who went to the front in January of this year, was 27 years of
age. He was an old boy of King Edward School, Aston, and was captain of the Rugby
Football eleven in 1905-6. He studied in Germany and France, and on returning from
completing his education accepted a position as modern language master of the Grammar
School, Windermere, and later at Kelby College, Tavistock. He was a young man of great
promise.
Source:-www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich and
Redditch Messenger for Bromsgrove BMSGH web site

He was possibly in the Battle of Passchendaele.

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