DENHAM, Reginald Grainger

Reginald was born in Newport to Frederick James & Elizabeth Maria (nee SALTER) DENHAM. In 1901 the family were living at Donnor Cottage in Northwood but by 1911 they have moved to 65 Carisbrooke Road in Newport. 1917 in Alverstoke he married Ethel Margaret HOPKINS who was living at The Railway Inn, Forton Road, Gosport in Hampshire around the time of Reginald’s death.

Reginald, aged 23, was Killed in Action on the 30th of May 1918 & originally buried close to where he fell. His body was later exhumed & reburied in his final resting place in Section IV Row D Grave 4 at the Chambrecy British Cemetery in France on 5th of March 1920 beneath a Commission Headstone alongside over 400 of his First World War comrades, nearly half of whom remain unidentified.

Reginald is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.