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Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth, GC (28 January 1898 – 21 September 1940) was a sailor in the Royal Navy.
Ellingworth was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire to Frank and Kate Louise.
He was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he displayed while attempting to defuse a parachute mine that had fallen in Dagenham, Essex, during the Blitz, along with Lieutenant Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan and Dick Moore. Notice of his award appeared in a supplement to the London Gazette of 17 December 1940.
The soldiers had defused many such devices together, and had just successfully defused a device in Hornchurch which was threatening an aerodrome and explosives factory when they were called to Dagenham. The bomb there was hanging from its parachute on a warehouse. He is buried at Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth.
He was married to Rose Ward until her death in 1925. He remarried Jessie Day Phillips.
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- Reginald Ellingworth
- Richard Ryan (Royal Navy officer)
- List of George Cross recipients
- 1946 New Year Honours
- 1917 New Year Honours
- List of last surviving veterans of military operations
- Bromley London Borough Council elections
- Candidates of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election
- 1967 Birthday Honours
- Results of the 1895 New South Wales colonial election
