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NEWMP H51.07

Wall plaque in memory of John Oswald Head, Hackwood, & Son

plaque | memorial

alabaster

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The Reginald Head Memorial
‘He died a most gallant death…’

This memorial to Captain Reginald (Reggie) Head was commissioned by his mother Dorothy.
Reggie was a ‘professional’ soldier. He had trained at Sandhurst and received his first
commission in 1906 at the age of 21. He served with the Border Regiment in India and
Burma, but was killed in 1915 at Gallipoli, fighting the Turks who were allies of Germany.

Alabaster tablet with black lettering. At the top is a laurel wreath in which is a black cross.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AND IN EVER LOVING
MEMORY OF
JOHN OSWALD HEAD: HACKWOOD,
WHO DIED
JULY 28^TH 1914. AGED 85 YEARS.
ALSO OF HIS SON
REGINALD HEAD, CAPTAIN.
1^ST BORDER REGIMENT.
WHO WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI ON APRIL 28^TH 1915.
AGED 30 YEARS.
———
ERECTED BY DOROTHY HEAD.

The 2 principal names slightly larger than other text

Jones and Willis Ltd, Edmund Street, Birmingham

1915–1918

1886: J O Head, manager, Cumberland Union Bank, home: Hackwood.
J O Head was the last link with the 1859 Committee, of which he was a member. He has served as Churchwarden, and he was a member of the far more important Committee which served for ten years and wrought a work of great magnitude [restoration; then building the nave]. [Hex.Par.Mag. Sep 1914]
Captain Reginald Head, of the 1^st Border Regiment, was killed at the Dardanelles. The family is well known to us all, and has been closely identified with the Abbey. He leaves a widow and a newly-born babe whom he never saw. May God bless them and comfort them and his widowed mother, who lost but a few months ago her husband, and now mourns the death of her gallant son. The only sister mourns too, for Reggie was so much, so very much to each and to all. [Hex.Par.Mag. Jun 1915, p.6]