Reginald William Follit

This name is on the Old Manorians memorial, Clapham

(Reginald William Follit)

Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, 13th Squadron and General List

Died of wounds on 28 April 1917, aged 26

Remembered at Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Reginald William Follit, then 20, lived at 87 Kings Avenue, Clapham with his widowed father William and sister Isabel Mary, 41, and two live-in servants. Reginald and Mary both worked in the family business - William was a slate merchant. On the night of the census, Reginald's sister Catharine Lievin-Bouwens was visiting the household along with her husband, Felix Arthur Lievin-Bouwens, a chartered accountant from London, and three children (and two servants). Reginald Follit was one of at least six children.

From Flight magazine (Personals) 5 July 1917

Lieutenant REGINALD WILLIAM FOLLIT, R.F.C., aged 26, reported missing on April 28th, is now stated by his observer (a prisoner) to have died after an aerial engagement in France. He was the younger son of Mr. William Follit, of Avenue House, Clapham Park, S.W., was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and early joined the H.A.C. After the outbreak of war he was granted a commission in the R.F.A., and when in France was transferred to the R.F.C., acting as an observer. He obtained his pilot's certificate in England,

and returned to the front on April 18th.

Married Lillian Taylor Watkins at St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex in Q4, 1915

Child William Roy Follit, Captain, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment attd. 5th Bn; killed in action on 16 September 1943, aged 26. Remembered at Salerno War Cemetery, Italy