Name
Reginald Charles Human
30 April 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Marlowes Methodist Church War Memorial, Hemel Hempstead, Not on the Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial
Pre War
Reginald Charles Human was born on 30 April 1896 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Alfred and Selina Human. On the 1901 Census the family were living at 4 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead, when his father was working as a Railway Bus Driver. They remained in Alma Road on the 1911 Census, but had moved to No. 11, at which time Reginald was working as gardener (domestic).
He married Emily Johnson on 22 March 1917 at All Saints, Dovercourt, Essex. They do not appear to have had any children.
On the 1939 Register they were living at The Farm, Scots Bridge House, Rickmansworth, Herts where he was working as a Head Gardener. They later lived at 43 Oakfield Berry Lane, Rickmansworth. Reginald died on 11 November 1968 at Rickmansworth.
N.B. His brother Sidney is also named on the Marlowes Methodist Memorial as a survivor of the war
Wartime Service
Reginald served as a Corporal and Acting CSM with the South Wales Borderers, under Reg. no. 45553
Additional Information
Marlowes Methodist Church was one of the five churches that merged in 2006 to form Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church. The Marlowes Methodist Church building was built in 1890 and used regularly from then until 2006 and then again as the main Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church building from May 2012 until it finally closed in March 2014. The war memorial was removed from the building before demolition and passed to the local British Legion. The war memorial is unusual in that it names those who returned safely as well as those who died.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
mymethodisthistory.org.uk
