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{{Template:Origin|text=The information for this biography and the associated photographs have been contributed by a FIBIS member who is the son of the subject. It describes the military career of a distinguished soldier in the Indian Army and his earlier service in the First World War. The internal and external links are by Fibiwiki editors.}}
'''Early Life and World War I'''<br />
Reggie was the youngest of three surviving sons of a Kentish farming family<ref>. The story of this family is described in [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrpS_YQ9FoAC&lpg=PP1&dq=On%20Kentish%20Chalk&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false '' "On Kentish Chalk - A Farming Family of the North Downs"'' by David Gore 2006].</ref>. His grandfather had emigrated to the Australian goldfields in the 1850s where he made his fortune. This allowed Reggie’s father to go off and train as a doctor back in England where Reggie and his brothers were born and educated. Reggie, aged 19, was visiting his relations in Queensland in 1914 when ‘the Great War’ broke out and he enlisted there in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Battalion,_Royal_Queensland_Regiment#World_War_I 9th Infantry, Australian Imperial Force]. A month later he heard that his eldest brother Sydney had been killed in France, and six months later he was himself fighting against the Turks at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Cove ANZAC Cove], Gallipoli. He was commissioned the following year and transferred to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th/49th_Battalion,_Royal_Queensland_Regiment#49th_Battalion.2C_AIF 49th Infantry AIF] with whom he was in the trenches on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I) Western Front] in France both in 1916 and 1917.
On the conclusion of the war, Reggie transferred to the [[Indian Army]] in which his other brother had been serving. He joined the 1st Battalion, [[88th Carnatic Infantry]] with which he went to Iraq during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Mesopotamia British Mesopotamian mandate 1920-22] where his battalion was brought in to quell a combined Shia and Sunni inspired insurrection (shades of Iraq in 2003). There followed a period on operations in [[Waziristan]] with 2nd Battalion, [[90th Punjab Regiment|90th Punjabis]], after which in 1922 he became adjutant when the 90th was renamed 2nd Battalion, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Punjab_Regiment 8th Punjab Regiment] and moved to [[Bannu]].
In 1931 Reggie was seconded to the [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/burma/bmp.htm Burma Military Police] in [[Rangoon]] where he helped in the quelling of the rebellions at Tharrawaddy and [[Prome]]. He was then sent north to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_State Shan States] based at Loimwe where he had to deal with banditry, mostly from across the Chinese border. He was awarded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Police_Medal#King.27s_Police_Medal King’s Police Medal] for three operations which he led against armed bandits in 1934. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrpS_YQ9FoAC&lpg=PP1&dq=On%20Kentish%20Chalk&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=true Read the citation].
'''[[Operations in Waziristan]]'''<refbr />Major Gore rejoined his battalion (2/8th) as a company commander in time for its operations in Waziristan 1936-37. The most detailed account of this campaign is to be found in ''Official history of operations on the N.W. frontier of India, 1936-37'' ISBN 1 84342 765 6.</ref><br /> Major Gore rejoined his battalion (2/8th) as a company commander in time for its operations in Waziristan 1936-37. The photographs below were taken by him on campaign. Click on an image to enlarge it.
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