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Capt Major Gore rejoined his battalion (2/8th) as a company commander in time for its operations in Waziristan 1936-37.
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'''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_Cove ANZAC BayCove], 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]].
'''[[Operations in Waziristan]]'''<br />
[[Image:Waziristan Btn Warflag.jpg|200px|left|Battalion war flag]] [[Image:Waziristan Niffs.jpg|210px|center|Some of my Niffs]]
