Reginald Beardsley De Lacour[1] (November 8, 1886 – March 21, 1948) was the thirty-fourth Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut.
[2] He was born in Wichita, Kansas on November 8, 1886, to Margaret Starr Beardsley of Stratford, and J. Walter De Lacour, who was a Yale Law graduate of 1885.
[3] Upon leaving school, he went to work in the Bridgeport Trust Company as a bookkeeper which position he held until 1906 when he decided he was ready for something else.
He later rejoined his unit before the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and it was here he distinguished himself, that he was promoted to captain in the Argonne forest, in November 1918, for bravery under fire.
His club affiliations include Army Legion of Valor, member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars, The Huguenot Society, he was a member of the First Congregational Church of Stratford, and also he was vice president of the Bridgeport Real State Board and director and secretary of the Union Cemetery association.