Private Reginald Downham

Army Number: 2739

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of John and Ada E. Downham, of 50, Victoria Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a joiner prior to enlisting 15th October 1914 at Mansfield. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 30th July 1915, aged 21, when the Germans attacked the British positions at Hooge, Belgium.

Private Reginald Downham

Private Reginald Downham article
Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 6th August 1915.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private Reginald Downham is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Brunt’s School War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.