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1889 Jul 25. Born Hendon, Middlesex
1891 census at Harrow, Middlesex
1901 census at Ormond Terrace, Marylebone, London
1911 census. He is an undergraduate living at St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire
1911 Mar 8. 4th Battalion, The Welsh Regiment; Reginald Vivian Gery, from the Oxford. University Contingent, Senior Division,. Officers Training Corps, to be Second Lieutenant.
1913 Feb 12. 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen's .Westminster Rifles); Second Lieutenant Reginald Vivian Gery, from the 4th Battalion, The Welsh Regt, to be 2nd Lt.
1914 Sep 3. Entered his first War Zone, Malta
1916 Mar 16. London Regt. 2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) R. V. Gery is seconded for duty with a Brigade Machine Gun Co.
1918 Apr 7. London Regt. Capt. R. V. Gery relinquishes his commission on account of ill-health contracted on active service, and is granted the hon. rank of Capt.
1920 May 17 Arrived in Canada from UK
1920 Aug 24 Joins ADRIC with service no 248. Posted to D Coy in Galway
1921 Feb 4. Posted to B Coy
1021 Feb 6 to 19 Feb on Leave
1921 Mar 13 Admitted Military Hospital Tipperary
1921 Apr 11. Discharged medically unfit - not due to service in ADRIC. The ADRIC entry has also "Miss Doreen Smith, Agricultural Station, Athenry, Galway". He later marries her
1922 Apr 10 Gets 6 months for fraud in Oxford
1923 Aug 3. Leaves UK for Canada
1932 Jan 24. A Baby Gery died in Ontario, Canada, father Reginald Vivian Gery and mother Doreen Smith
1942 Died buried Prospect Cemetery, Toronto
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