Bright, R C
REGINALD CHARLES BRIGHT
Remembered with honour Assevillers New British Cemetery: Misery Chapel German Cemetery Memorial 6.
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. Unfortunately, Reginald’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
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.
Service number
35528Rank
PrivateUnit
1st BattalionRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
28/03/1918Age at death
24Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)