REGINALD HAROLD DOWN (1909-14 : 20), Private in the Royal Fusiliers, son of Mr W R Down of Merridale Road, Wolverhampton, was known here as a football player who would have added much to our strength had he not left early.  During the short time that he was in the 1st XI he gave much promise, fleetness of foot being assisted by alertness of mind.  From the school he went into engineering works, and as soon as he reached his 18th birthday enlisted in one of the Public Schools Battalions of the Royal Fusiliers.  Having received training at Epsom, Oxford and Edinburgh, he went to France in July 1916.  He was engaged in the arduous fighting on the Somme and round Arras and took part in the storming of the Vimy Ridge.  Through all this he passed without a scratch, but at La Vacquerie, on November 24th 1917, during the great effort against Cambrai, he was killed.