Private Reginald Stanley Causley
5th Auxiliary Petrol Company (MT), Army Service Corps (ASC)
Died from appendicitis
Date of Birth: 1896
Place of Birth: East Teignmouth, Devon
Date of Death: 21 August 1919 aged 23
Buried: Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme. Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michael's Church Memorial, Teignmouth, Devon
Awarded the 1914-15 Star, The British War Medal and the Victory Medal
Private Reginald Stanley Causley age 23.
Born 1896 in East Teignmouth, the youngest son of Harry and Emma Causley of 1 Esplanade.
Reginald's father, Harry was born in Teignmouth in 1859. He is shown on the 1901 census as a builder employing two male and five female servants who live with his family in his house at 3 Courtenay Place, Teignmouth.
Reginald's mother was born as Emma Nicholls in Hennock, (near Bovey Tracey) in Devon in 1859.
On the 1911 census Reginald is living at 1 Esplanade, Teignmouth, with his parents and his siblings, Richard Charles Causley (1881–1944), Bessie Victoria Causley (B.1887), Henry Causley (1893–1958) and William Causley (B.1894). There are also two female servants living in the house.
He was shown on 1918 absent voters' list at 1 Esplanade, Teignmouth.
Reginald married Dorothy A Broadbear on 9 June 1919, she was living at 25 Regent Street. Prior to enlisting he worked as a motor cycle fitter with W Broadbear & Sons, Regent Street. At the end of the war the company stated that they were willing to re-employ him, however he returned to France as part of the occupying force.
Army Service Corps
Cap Badge
Army Service Corps Recruiting poster 1915
He enlisted with Army Service Corps (MT), service number 130955, on 6 October 1915 at Grove Park, London. On 19 October 1915 he arrived in France, but news reached his parents that their son had been wounded at the Front in November 1915; he served there until August 1919.
Reginald was serving with 5th Auxiliary Petrol Company when he was admitted to hospital on 20 July 1919; he died from appendicitis at 2nd Stationary Hospital, Abbeville, France, on 21 August 1919.
Buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme. Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michael's Church Memorial, Teignmouth.
Grave Inscription reads: "In Sacred and Eternal Memory of my Beloved Husband (Jupe); God is Love from Dot".
The Army Service Corps (ASC)
The ASC was the branch of the British Army that was responsible providing the supplies needed by other units who were fighting on many fronts.
Troops of the 34 Auxiliary Patrol Company, 960 Motor Transport Company, Army Service Corps. © IWM (Q 71933)
During the Great War, using horses, motor vehicles, railways and waterways for transportation the ASC supplied millions of tons of food, fuel and other provisions to where needed.
The ASC Mechanical Transport (MT) Companies used motor-driven vehicles.
