Reginald Bartley Ashe (1895 - 1968)

Ancestors

Biography

Name: Captain Ashe Estimated Birth Year: abt 1896 Age: 23 Arrival Date: 6 Dec 1919 Arrival Port: Brisbane and Sydney, Australia Departure Port: London Ship: Orontes Nationality: British Source: Series: VPRS 7666; Series Title: Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports) [Microfiche Copy of VPRS 947]. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2009. Original data: Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (British Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7666, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (Foreign Ports). Microfiche VPRS 7667, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Victoria. Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (New Zealand Ports). Microfiche VPRS 13439, copy of VRPS 947. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria. Victoria. Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom. Microfiche VPRS 14. Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.

Military Service

Corporal Reginald Bartley Ashe enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on the 19th of August 1914. His Next of Kin was listed as Mrs Mary Ann Ashe, of 24 Halifax Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria. He states Previous military service with the 26th Signal Company Army Engineers. He was assigned to the Divisional Signal Company 1, and this unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A10 Karroo on 20 October 1914. He was later Commissioned and served as a Captain with the 4th Divisional Signal Company. He would go on to be Mentioned in Despatches, recommended for the Croix de Guerre and finally was awarded the Military Cross (Source for nomination: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 219 Date: 20 December 1917.) Receiving his Military Cross in April 1918. (Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 57. Date: 18 April 1918)

Who's Who entry
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Who's Who in Australia, 1921-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Who's Who in Adelaide, South Australia 1921-1922. Adelaide, Australia: The Associated Publishing Service. Fred Johns, F.J.I. Who's Who in the Commonwealth of Australia. Sydney, Australia: Angus & Robertson LTD, 1922. Who's Who in Australia 1927. Vol. 2. Melbourne: International Press Service Association, 1927. International Press Service Association, comp. Who's Who in Australia 1929. Third Issue. Sydney, Australia: International Press Service Association, 1929. Errol G. Knox. Who's Who in Australia 1933-34. VIIIth Edition. Melbourne: The Herald Press, 1934. Errol G. Knox. Who's Who in Australia 1935. IXth Edition. Melbourne: The Herald and Weekly Times, 1935. Who's Who South Australia Centenary, 1936. Adelaide, Australia: The Amalgamated Publishing Company, 1936. Joseph A. Alexander, ed. Who's Who in Australia 1938. Xth Edition. Melbourne: The Herald Press, 1938. Joseph A. Alexander, comp. and ed. Who's Who in Australia 1944. XIIth Edition. Melbourne: The Herald Press, 1944. Alec H. Chisholm, comp. and ed. Who's Who in Australia 1947. XIIIth Edition. Melbourne: The Herald Press, 1947. Joseph A. Alexander. Who's Who in Australia 1950. XIVth Edition. Melbourne, Australia: Colorgravure Publications, 1950.

Sources

• Name: Regd Bartley Ashe Father's Name: Jno Hy Ashe Mother's Name: Mary Ann Bartley Birth Place: Kew, Victoria Registration Year: 1895 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 30440

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources

• Deaths New Zealand: 1968/33339 Ashe Reginald Bartley 72Y

• Reginald Bartley ASHE from the AIF PROJECT website first accessed online on the 2nd of May, 2023.

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 02 May 2023), memorial page for LTC Reginald Bartley Ashe (1895–5 May 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #145438493, citing Taitā Lawn Cemetery, Naenae, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand; Maintained by TracyJames50 (contributor 48174260).