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Reginald Calvert Warnes was born in Beverley in 1891. He was raised by his grandparents, Bransby and Mary Warnes who lived in Regent Street, Beverley. He attended Minster Boys’ School until the age of fourteen and in 1911 he was living in Scunthorpe where he was employed as a gasworker at the steelworks.
Reginald served throughout the First World War with the Royal Field Artillery in the 91st Brigade. He enlisted in Sep 1914 and in Jul 1915 embarked for France where he remained until he was demobilised in 1919. A letter from Reginald was published in the Beverley Guardian 25 Sep 1915 in which he wrote “I am dispatch riding at present, plenty of excitement. I can assure you I shall never forget my first baptism of shell fire, but like everything else you get used to it in time.”
He was awarded the British War and Victory medals and also the 14 and 15 Stars. He was granted leave to the UK in Dec 1916 during which he married Catherine Ellen Roberts in Beverley Minster on 7 Dec. He was on leave in the UK in May 1917 following Catherine’s death from tuberculosis.
In Oct 1921 Reginald married for a second time, in Beverley Minster, to Florence Jenkinson. Reginald and Florence had a son, Leslie, and in the 1939 Register they were living in Herberts Terrace, Westbourne Avenue, Hull. Reginald was employed on the Railway (LNER) as a permanent way sub-ganger, and Leslie, aged 16, was employed as a general labourer at the Blackburn Aircraft Works.
Reginald died in Hull in Mar 1953, aged 61.
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