CHATTOCK Reginald Harvey

Reginald Chattock was born in 1896.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1908 to 1914, was a School Monitor, Head of Gordon House, Football XV., Cricket XI, Gym, Colours, Fives Captain and Lance-Sergeant in the O.T.C.  He was killed on the night of 13th March, when visiting an isolated position in company with two other officers.  He had only returned from hospital the day before, and though he was urged by his Captain to rest and do no work that night, it was characteristic of him that he should have preferred “to do his job”. Those who knew him best feel that he died as he had lived.  Here, at school, it was ever his aim ‘to do his job’ and whether in work or play, he set a fine example of grit and perseverance.  He was an all-round athlete, who won nearly every distinction open to him, but though he will long be remembered as such, it is rather for what he was than for what he did that his many Bromsgrovian friends will cherish his memory.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

The following information and photograph have been researched by and are courtesy of Patrick Casey:
The Observer, Saturday, March 18, 1916
Bristol Sheriff’s Son Killed in Action
Deep sympathy will be felt for the Sheriff and Mrs Chattock who received news yesterday morning that their second son, Second Lieut. Reginald Harvey Chattock, of the 4th Gloucesters, was killed in action in France on the 13th inst. Lieut. Chattock who was 19 years of age last July, was educated at the Downs School and afterwards at Bromsgrove School. He was an accomplished athlete and won about 26 medals while at school. He had his cap in the Cricket eleven and the Football Fifteen. On leaving Bromsgrove in December, 1914, he immediately joined the 2/4th Gloucesters, and was afterwards transferred to the 1/4th Gloucesters. He had been out at the front just over two months.

Reginald Chattock