When Reginald Alvin applied for a commission, his first choice was the West Yorkshire Regiment, however as we have already seen he was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment, a regiment whose recruiting heartland was based in South Yorkshire. The tragically famous battalions of the Barnsley Pals and the Sheffield City Battalion belonged to the York and Lancaster Regiment. At the time of his disembodiment from the Army he was serving attached to the 9th Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment which was a service battalion of “Kitchener’s Army” raised in Preston from September 1914.
At some stage during the war, his family moved to a new house, from “Rose Villa (sometimes seen as Cottage)”, which stood at the top end of Main Street, close to the site of the War Memorial, to Scholes Hall, which stood in its own grounds on Main Street between Badger Terrace and The Barleycorn Inn on the opposite side of the road to the church. The Hall occupied the lower portion of the land where the sheltered housing complex is on Belle Vue Road. The row of houses closest to Main Street is roughly where the front of the Hall stood.
After he returned from the war, he married Agnes W Hirst in 1923 and they lived in The Avenue, Scholes, until 1928 when they moved to Laneside, Barwick in Elmet. By 1939 they were living at 14 West Park Drive, Roundhay. The 1951 Leeds Telephone Directory shows that Reg and Agnes had moved to Oak Lodge on Street Lane. They had a son, John Peter R Alvin on 27th April 1926. John Alvin died in November 1998.
Reginald Alvin died at his home on Park Lane, Roundhay, Leeds, from Bronchial Cancer on 22 March 1975.
Like his father before him Reginald Alvin had made his living as a timber merchant in the family company called Alvin, Morris & Co., which was based in Black Bull Street, Leeds.
