Name
Reginald Whitmore Pepys
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1914
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Worcestershire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VENDRESSE BRITISH CEMETERY
III. C. 10.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born 3 Jan 1883 in the Vicarage, Hallow, Worcestershire son of Rev Herbert George and Louisa Harriet (Isaac) Pepys and was living in Hallow in 1891. Educated at Haileybury College 1896–1900 and The Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Lived in Great Malvern in 1901. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 18 Jan 1902. Served with the West African Regiment as Lieutenant from 1908 to 1913. Obtained his company on 24 May 1913 and re-joined the Worcestershire Regiment. He married Maud Mael Foster in Iffley, Oxford on 27 Jul 1914 and later lived at Newlands Ash, Surrey.
Wartime Service
Entered France at Boulogne on 14 Aug 1914. He sustained a gunshot wound to the chest when leading A Coy. in a charge at the Battle of the Aisne and died in hospital at Chateau de Vermeil.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
