Name
Reginald Charles Bright
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35528
Worcestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ASSEVILLERS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Misery Chateau German Cem. Mem. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of Louisa (nee SAUNDERS) BRIGHT of Watford, and the late Albert BRIGHT.
His parents married 1884 in the Lymington, Hants, district. Albert died 1907 in the Winchester, Hants, district aged 50; Louisa died 16 January 1926 in Watford aged 68, and was buried 21 January in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Reginald was born 1894 in Lymington, and resided in Dorchester, Dorset.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Stoke Park, Hants, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop assistant aged 16, he lived in Eastleigh, Hants, with his widowed mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bristol; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received in action, his death officially accepted as 28 March 1918.
Additional Information
*1 His parents’ address was recorded after his death, so it is possible that he has no direct connection to Watford. More research is required. Unfortunately, Reginald’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
