CHAMPION, Reginald James

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The third and youngest son of George Charles Champion. Collected insects as a boy with his brother Harry in the neighborhood of the family home at Horsell, Woking. The close bond which the two brothers shared was broken when Reginald was killed in France during the first World War. British Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera are in the HDO. There are obituaries in EMM., 53, 1917, 215 (by his uncle J.J. Walker) and in Ent. News, 29, 1918, 80. (MD 1/O2)

Dates
1895 - 1917