| Date of birth: | 1888 |
| Place of birth: | Southampton |
| Regiment: | Royal Engineers |
| Battalion: | Cavalry Corps Signals |
| Rank / Service No: | Sapper, 361040 |
| Died: | 5th August 1918, aged 30 years |
| Buried: | Wavans British Cemetery, France (A.1) |
Reginald was the fourth of 6 siblings born to Frederick and Olivia Louisa Couper (nee Churcher), who married in Southampton in 1880.
Frederick was born in Southampton in 1851 and died in the city in 1923. Olivia was born in Bitterne in 1855 and she passed away in the city in 1937.
The family lived at 28 Wilton Road, Shirley.
Siblings
Arthur Harold Nelson b. 1881 Southampton d. ?? Married Louisa ELLEN Rendall in Southampton in 1902.
Ruby Marian b. 1882 Southampton d. 1968 Southampton Married Thomas Frederick Beard in Southampton in 1909.
Cecil Fredrick b. 1884 Southampton d. 1937 Chelsea
Reginald Maxwell
Percy Frank b. 1890 Southampton d. 1965 Winchester
Stanley Eustace b. 1892 Southampton d. 1980 Manchester Married Phyllis Dorothy Bentley in Pontypridd in 1914 (divorced in 1918). Married Catherine M. Brewer in Steyning in 1920 (died Birmingham 1933). Married Dorothy Clark in Birmingham in 1933.
Reginald died just before the Allied attempt to recapture the city of Amiens; he may well have been involved in the preliminaries.
The Cemetery was made by the 21st Casualty Clearing Station in mid 1918, and it contains 43 Commonwealth WW1 burials.
Buried in this cemetery is flying ace Major James Thomas Byford McCudden VC, DSO and Bar, MC and Bar, MM who died of his wounds in July 1918.
| Researcher: | Mark Heritage |
| Published: | 27th June 2016 |
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