Private Reginald Ernest Downs of Ryhall and his father Ernest both served in the First World War. His father, a former professional soldier who had served in India and South Africa, survived, while Reg was dead just two weeks after arriving on the Western Front and a month short of his nineteenth birthday. Reg was born on 12 May 1899, and enlisted in June 1917, into the Yorkshire Regiment aged 18. He
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