Name
Christopher George Reynolds
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
102762
Royal Field Artillery
"B" Battery, 46th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 4 to 6 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of the late Mr George Reynolds of Hitchin. Before joining up he was an apprentice at Paternoster & Hales book binding works in Hitchin and later worked in Southend. He was born in Hitchin, but enlisted in Southend as a volunteer in April 1915.
He married a Miss Hunt in July 1917 and his home was 119, Whinbush Rd, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Christopher was allocated Regimental Number 102762 and was sent to the Western Front in 1916. He served at Arras, Messines, Albert and Ypres and was wounded on the Somme. In August 1917 he was in ‘B’ Battery of the 46th Brigade R.F.A., 14th (Light) Infantry Brigade, 2nd Corps of the 5th Army.
The Battery was involved in the Battle of Langemarck that commenced on the 16th August 1917 when the Battery was positioned in the vicinity of Hooge and supporting the attacks of the 56th Infantry Division, which was in front of the 14th Infantry Division. Very violent fighting took place with shelling all day and his death was almost certainly the result of shells hitting the battery position as he was not seen again after a shell-burst.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panels 4-6 and 162 of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
