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The Roll lists no address for him.
(CWGC records that Company Quartermaster Serjeant R. E. Southwell, regimental number 15204, died aged 21 on 1/4/1916 serving in 9th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.F.19 at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Catherine and John George Southwell of the C.E. Schoolhouse, Horncastle, Lincs. The Medal Rolls record that Reginald Edwin Southwell went to France on 24/8/1915 as a Private, but that his British and Victory medals were issued under the rank of Acting Company Sergeant Major. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Horncastle who enlisted at Boston. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Reginald's father John was his legatee. The birth of Reginald Edwin Southwell was registered in Horncastle District in 1894. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at 1 Manor House Street, Horncastle; his father was a schoolmaster. On the 1911 census Reginald was working as a bank clerk, lodging at "Eston", Barrowby Road, Grantham.
When Reginald's death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 15/4/1916 he was reported to have worked for Barclay's Bank in Peterborough before enlisting in September 1914. The newspaper stated that he had gone to France in August 1915, been wounded on 31/3/1916, and had died of his wounds on 1/4/1916).