Reginald-Tivey-M.-C.-1888-1950
Reginald
Tivey was born 1888 in Birmingham, Warwickshire to printing clerk
and commercial traveller Tom Brown Tivey and his wife Louisa Teresa
Prince. He was the second of three sons (Harold and Tom Brown)
and also had two sisters (Ida Eveline and Gladys). He had
served previous time in the Army when he attested for service in
1914, making the grade of Lieutenant by the end of the War. He
earned the Military Cross for bravery and was cited in dispatches on
other occassions, he was injured several times and spent time at the
Military Hospital situated in Radcliffe on Trent. In 1919 he married
Military Nurse Elizabeth "Katie" Birks, the daughter of Albion
Birks and his wife Elizabeth Jane Peake. The couple were
blessed with a daughter Patricia Elizabeth Angeline Tivey in 1922
whilst residing in Prestwich, near Manchester. After the war ended,
despite suffering greatly with disability caused by war injuries, he
worked as a clerk at the Customs and Excise office retiring
with the distinguished rank of senior clerical officer. Reginald
died in 1950 followed 2 years later by hife wife Katie.
"Anglea" their daughter married Reginald Slinn in 1944 and gave
Reginald the gift of two grandchildren, Raymond Slinn and
Patricia Slinn who were both born in Stafford in the 1940s.Back to Group 20 Media