Filey War Memorial, Murray Street

Reginald was the son of Frederick Andrew CULLEY, a tailor, and Annie LANGDON. The parents married in Croyden in 1881 but Reginald's birth was registered in Bath District June Quarter 1882 5c 636. For reasons not yet known the family moved from Somerset to Yorkshire later that decade and Reginald's brother Thomas Joseph was born in 1888 in the Scarborough Registration District (Free BMD December Quarter 9d 369). I cannot find any Culleys in the Filey Censuses of 1891 and 1901 so they may initially have settled in the wider Scarborough area. Reginald and Tom had at least five siblings - seven children of Frederick and Annie are remembered on a headstone in St Oswald's churchyard.

Area D/373 Row 33

In Loving Memory of our dear sons SYDNEY H. CULLEY, died as a result

of an accident Nov 17th 1920 aged 18, FREDERICK J. CULLEY

died June 7th 1930 aged 43

Also Pte. R. V. CULLEY, R.F. and Cpl. T. J. CULLEY, R.A.M.C.,

who died on Active Service 1916 and ARCHIE who died in infancy

WALTER EDGAR CULLEY died June 15th 1935 aged 38

Also of ANNIE their mother who rejoined them May 16th 1944

And FREDERICK ANDREW their father, who died Jan 2nd 1945

Also ETHEL wife of WALTER EDGAR died Dec 23rd 1941

Also daughter of the above RHODA SUSAN CULLEY

died October 18th 1969 aged 74 years

Dan Eaton writes that Reginald and Tom enlisted as soon as war was declared in August 1914 when they were 32 and 24 years old respectively. He also mentions that on 15th May 1921 their mother, Annie Culley "officially unveiled the town's war memorial in honour of all those who fell in the Great War for Civilisation".

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