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[[Image:RM Gore c.1930.jpg|thumb|R M Gore c.1930]]
==== '''A biography of Lt-Col Reginald Malpas Gore 1895-1969''' ====
{{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 "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 ANZAC Bay, 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 Western Front in France both in 1916 and 1917.
'''[[Operations in Waziristan]]'''<br />
Capt Gore rejoined his battalion (2/8th) as a company commander in time for their its operations in Waziristan 1936-37 [photographs], and
