
Reginald George Pridmore
Today’s losses include:
- An Olympic Gold Medal winning field hockey player
- A Warwick and Hertford cricketer
- Multiple families that will lose two sons in the Great War
Today’s highlighted casualties include:
- Major Reginald George Pridmore MC (Royal Field Artillery) is killed near Piave River at age 31. He is a former field hockey player on the gold medal winning England team in the 1908 Olympics. He is also a first class cricketer as a right-handed batsman for Warwickshire and minor county cricket for Hertfordshire. The inscription placed upon his wooden cross read “A most gallant sportsman and comrade”.
- Second Lieutenant John James Roy (Worcestershire Regiment) is killed at age 25. His brother was killed in February 1917.
- Sergeant and observer Herbert Gostling (Royal Flying Corps) is killed in action at age 26. His brother died of wounds in November 1916.