Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Abrams

Army Number: n/a

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

Born at Oxford, 11th September 1888. Son of Edward Arthur and Elizabeth Abrams, of 82, Southmoor Road, Oxford. He was educated at Oxford Boys High School and was a junior assistant at the Bodleian Library, Oxford until 1905 when he became a senior assistant of finance at the Bodleian. He obtained an M.A at Jesus College, Oxford University and became an assistant librarian there. He was appointed Second Lieutenant to the Sherwood Foresters from the Oxford University Contingent, Senior Division, Officers Training Corps. He went to France on 23rd August 1915 and was killed in action, on 4th March 1917, when the Germans counter-attacked the British line in front of La Brayelle Farm near Gommecourt, France.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 2, Row D. Grave 16.

Lieutenant Reginald Arthur Abrams is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Oxford Boys High School War Memorial, Oxford.
Walton Street Methodist Chapel War Memorial, Oxford.
St. Catherine’s Society War Memorial, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
British Libririans’ War Memorial, British Library, London.