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==== '''A biography of Lt-Col Reginald Malpas Gore 1895-1969''' ==== {{Template:Origin|text=This biography and the associated photographs have been contributed by the son of the subject who is a member of FIBIS .}}
Reggie was the youngest of three surviving sons of a Kentish farming family. 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 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 49th Infantry AIF with whom he was in the trenches on the Western Front in France both in 1916 and 1917.
