591043. Bugler Reginald George House

“D” Company, 18th. (County of London) Battalion, (London Irish Rifles), London Regiment. Born in 1897. Enlisted in Chelsea, London. Killed in Action on Saturday 31st. August or Monday 2nd. September 1918, aged 21 during The Advance to Victory. Buried in Sailly-Saillisel British Cemetery, Somme, France, Plot IX, Row A, Grave 5. Son of George and Edith E. House of 137 Queen’s Road, Battersea, London. 3 of George’s Comrades from the Battalion also Fell on this day and Reginald is flanked on either side in the Cemetery by 2 of his them: 608614. Rifleman George Stewart Anderson, Grave 4, and 59311. Rifleman Richard Cyril Groom, Grave 6. Reginald was entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal. A War Gratuity of £21. 0. 0. was paid to his mother. Reginald is also Commemorated on Page 191 in IRELAND’S MEMORIAL RECORDS 1914-1918: HOUSE, REGINALD GEORGE. Reg. No. 591043., Rank, Bugler, 18th London Regiment (London Irish Rifles); killed in action, France, September 2, 1918.

Barry Jenkins