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Reginald Walter Ball

Rank Boy 1st Class
Service Number J 43059
Born 11/02/1900 Boxgrove

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HMS Indefatigable

Class Battle Cruiser

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Plymouth Naval Memorial

The memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and is situated on The Hoe which looks directly towards Plymouth Sound. There are 23,204 identified casualties listed of which 7,231 were sailors in World War One. The memorial was unveiled by HRH Prince George on 29th July 1924

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Enlistment 13/08/1915 Next of kin address South View Cottages, The Street, Bearsted, Kent England Marie Octavie (1902), Margaret Christina (1904), Norah Ranlagh (1906) Philip William (1908) Mother Ada Jane (nee Tracey) Father Walter More info 1911 census: Schoolboy 1901 census: The Post Office, Singleton, Sussex Sometime lived at the Mid Kent Golf Club, Gravesend, Kent Date of enlistment: 13/08/1915 Served on HMS Powerful Commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and on the Bearsted Church War Memorial