CAPTAIN REGINALD GEORGE STRACEY
SCOTS GUARDS
1ST JANUARY 1915 AGE 33
BURIED: BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY, ST LAURENT-BLANGY, FRANCE
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
The Book of Ecclesiastes, 12:6 & 7
At the very moment of death, when the silver cord is loosed, the body returns to the dust from which it came and the spirit returns to God who made it.
Captain Stracey was a regular army officer educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served with the 1st Battalion the Scots Guards, embarking with them for France with the Expeditionary Force on 13 August 1914. He was killed in an attack at Cuinchy La Bassee when the Scots Guards were ordered to attack the German positions to the south of the La Bassee Canal.
Reginald Stracey's family came from Norfolk. He is commemorated on the war memorial in Rackheath, where Sir Edward Paulet lived at Rackheath Park, and in both St Mary with St Margaret and St Cuthbert's in Sprowston where his father, the Lord of the Manor, had lived at Sprowston Lodge.