Name
Reginald Frank Jones Chatfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/05/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2950
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
Plot III, Row F, Grave 32.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Beechen Grove Baptist Church Memorial, Watford, Watford Printers Memorial, Watford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Arthur Frank and Mary Clara/Clarissa (nee HOLMAN) CHATFIELD.
His parents married 1888 in the Tunbridge Wells, Kent, district. Arthur died 1917 in the Watford district aged 56; Mary died 1926 in the Tonbridge, Kent, district aged 65.
Reginald/Frank was born 7 April 1895 in Tottenham, Middx, and attended Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 13 February 1905 to 20 April 1909. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Tottenham, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a printer aged 15 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 8 September 1914 in Hertford into the 1st Herts Territorial Force: a printer aged 19, 5’4″ tall, Baptist, unmarried, of Watford.
He embarked from Southampton 23 January 1915, and was promoted to Acting Lance-Corporal in the Field 1 March 1916. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 23 January 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Reginald is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
