Image from 1917 Chronicle newspaper.
Born: 1897, Ipswich.
Died: 31st July 1917; age 20; KiA – during the first day of the great battle. He had served for over a year in France and Flanders.
Residence: Ipswich.
Employed: Messrs. Westhorp, Cobbold, and Ward, Solicitors, Museum Street, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich, during the early part of 1916.
Rank: Private; Service Number: G/21422
Regiment: The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 8th Battalion.
Formerly 21336, East Surrey Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
Enclosure No. 4. XII.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Elizabeth MacKintosh, of 56, Alexandra Road, Ipswich & the late W.E. MacKintosh.
CENSUS
1901 110, Spring Road, Ipswich.
Reginald was 3 years old and living with his parents.
William Aeneas MacKintosh, 41, a Draper’s Assistant, born Petty, Iverness-shire, Scotland.
Elizabeth MacKintosh (nee Munro), 32, born Inverness-shire, Scotland.
1911 56, Alexandria Road, Ipswich.
Reginald was 13 years old and living with his parents.
William, 32, a Draper’s Assistant – Drapery.
Elizabeth, 42.
1 visitor.
Soldiers’ Effects to William MacKintosh – father.
Reginald is also remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich.
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 8th Battalion
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