PYMAR, Reginald Claude
| Service Number: | QX15655 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Loddon, Norfolk, England., 4 July 1904 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Illness, Italy, 22 November 1942, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
Caserta War Cemetery, Caserta, Campania, Italy Grave: Grave B 6 Personal Inscription A LOVED AND LOVING SON AND BROTHER PROUD TO DO HIS DUTY |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, QX15655 | |
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| 11 Jun 1941: | Enlisted | |
| 11 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX15655, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 22 Nov 1942: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Australian Infantry 2/28 Bn.
Births Sep 1904 Pymar Reginald Claude Loddon 4b 212
He was 38 and a son of William John and Minnie Belle Pymar, [nee Cater] of Norwich, England. They had married in Hoxne, Suffolk in 1887. They lived into old age, Minnie dying in 1940 aged 81 and William dying in 1960 aged 97.
There were several siblings; Hilda Cathleen (born. c. 1888), Nora Evelyn (born. c. 1889), Russell (born. c. 1894).
The 1891 census records the family living in Earl Soham. William’s occupation is recorded as ‘farmer’.
By the 1901 census the family are living at ‘Franklin Farm’ Woodton. William is now 38 and Minnie 41. William is still a farmer. By the 1911 census the family are living at Seething Brooke, Norwich. Russell is still at home (now 17) but Hilda, Nora and Cecil have now left. Spencer is 14 and is shown as ‘unemployed’. A new younger brother, Reginald is recorded.
He had at least two brothers;
Spencer Hugh Pymar who enlisted in the army in Norwich and was originally assigned to the Norfolk Regiment’s 3rd Battalion, with regimental number 18736. He was later reassigned to the Border Regiment’s 10th Battalion and given regimental number 23206.
His other brother Cecil Cater Pymar [Cater being his mother’s maiden name – born. c. 1895 ] joined the Border Regiment with regimental number 23205, the immediately preceding number; this means the two brothers were side-by-side in service at this point.
Spencer died whilst a Private in the Border Regiment’s 7th Battalion on Friday the 28th June 1916. He was just 19 years old. His death occurred in the army field hospital, St. Omer, France where he had been struck down with meningitis, dying of trench related disease like many of his comrades. Spencer is buried in Grave III B 7 of the Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. His name is inscribed on both of Snettisham’s war memorials and its ‘roll of honour’.
Cecil did not survive the war unscathed, he was invalided out of the army back to the UK on the 13th December 1916 and given the ‘silver ‘war service’ badge’.
The younger brother, Reginald was too young to serve in WW1 and emigrated to Australia after it ended. Upon the outbreak of WW2 he enlisted in the Australian Infantry.