Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Kelly R Gunner 31419 Reginald 12 FAB 21 Electrical engineer Single Meth
Address: Kensington, Derby St, 58
Next of Kin: Kelly, E, father, 58 Derby St, Kensington
Enlisted: 29 Sep 1916
Embarked: RMS Orontes 23 Dec 1916
Prior service: 64 Inf
Relatives on Active Service
Pte Walter Henry Foster, 31446, AFA
Date of Death: 22/08/1917
CWGC: "Son of Edward and Alice Kelly, of 25, Elder Parade, Essendon, Victoria, Australia. Native of Kensington, Victoria".
COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
Extract Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiries Bureau Correspondence
Killed in Action 22.8.17
re 31419 R Kelly. He was working a gun with me and a shell burst close to us and a piece of shrapnel hit him and killed him instantly and he was taken away that night to a village in the North of France and was buried in a Military Cemetery. He was 23 or 24 years old short nugget build, fair hair and round features and a very good athlete. With regard to the registered No of his grave I am unable to say where it would be registered.
Letter from Sgt A Bellett France 11.2.18.
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Gunner Reginald Kelly's memorial at Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. "
Courtesy of the Melbourne High School Archives, 2014.
The epitaph reads: "Thanks be to God He Giveth us the Victory Through our Lord".
Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. Courtesy of the Melbourne High School Archives, 2014.
Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. Courtesy of the Melbourne High School Archives, 2014.
Friend of:
Warren L J L Gunner 32426
Tytler S J Pte 5919
Fiddes-D-Pte-1659
War Service Commemorated
Kensington Methodist Church *
Melbourne High School
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours
In Memoriam
KELLY— FOSTER— MILLER. A loving tribute
to the memory of our loved ones, who have been
called home- Reg. Kelly, killed in action in Bel-
gium 22nd August, 1917, beloved son and brother
of Edward, Alice and Muriel Kelly; Wallie Foster,
killed in action in France 13th September, 1917,
beloved nephew and cousin of the above; also Nellie
Grace Miller, died at 34 May-street, East Kew, 20th
August, 1917, beloved auntie, of our soldier boys.
Sleep on, beloved, sleep and take your rest,
In God's eternal keeping you are safe.
We all shall meet again, in fairer climes,
Where sickness and the rude alarms of war
Shall never enter to disturb the peace of our eternal
home.
KELLY - In sad and loving memory of my dearly
loved friend, Reg, Killed in action in Belgium 22nd
August, 1917.
Oh for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still.
— Inserted by his loving fiancee, Doris Rutley, Flem-
ington.
KELLY.— In loving memory of our dear friend,
Reg, killed in action in Belgium 22nd August, 1917.
Ever, remembered.
— Inserted by Mr. and Mrs. Rutley and family,
Flemington.
KELLY.—ln loving memory of Gunner Reg
Kelly, killed in action on the 22nd August, 1917,
dearly loved comrade of Private Dave Fiddes, who
died of wounds on the 21st October, 1917.
Comrades united.
So dearly loved, so deeply mourned.
— A. and E. Fiddes, Kensington.
Family Notices (1918, August 22). The Age
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 1.
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KELLY - a loving tribute to the memory of
Gunner Reg Kelly, who was killed in action
on 22nd August, 1917
Inserted by the Kensington Methodist Athletic
Association.
Family Notices (1918, August 24).
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 5.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155138449
KELLY-WARREN.-In loving memory of my dear
pals, who were killed in action, Reg. Kelly, 22nd
August 1917; and Les Warren, 9th. August
1918.
In God's keeping.
Ever remembered.
-(Inserted by S. J. Tytler.)
Family Notices. (1920, August 21). The Argus, p. 13.
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