| Reginald Vincent Ellingworth | |
| Birth Date: | 28 January 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Wolverhampton |
| Death Place: | Dagenham, Essex |
| Placeofburial: | Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Branch: | Royal Navy |
| Rank: | Chief Petty Officer |
| Servicenumber: | P/J26011 |
| Battles: | First World War Second World War |
| Awards: | George Cross |
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3] He is buried at Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth.
He was married to Rose Ward until her death in 1925. He remarried Jessie Day Phillips.