Name
Reginald Colin Power
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5486
Royal Fusiliers *1
10th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 14 Aug 1890 in Coleshill House, Atherstone, Warwickshire son of Edward Thomas and Blanche (Spencer) Power and baptised in Atherstone on 7 Sep 1890.
Educated at Haileybury College 1904-08 and Edinburgh University where he was reading Medicine.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in Aug 1914 and entered France in Oct 1915. He was wounded at the Somme on 3 Jul 1916 but returned to the firing line and was killed in action at Bazentin-le-Grand.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Hackney).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
