Name
Dick Reynolds
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27894
Royal Fusiliers *1
26th (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY, FREVENT
V. G. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
GOODNIGHT BELOVED NOT GOODBYE WE MEET AGAIN.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Wethersfield War Memorial, Essex (inside St Mary Magdalene Church), Commemorated on Grave of Clara Reynolds (mother) at St Mary Magdalene, Wethersfield, Essex
Pre War
Dick Reynolds was born in 1897 in Wethersfield, Essex to Richard and Clara Reynolds, and they were living there on the 1901 and 1911 Censuses. Dick was an apprentice grocer in 1911 following in the footsteps of his father, who was a grocer’s assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served in the 26th Battalion of the London Regiment. The 26th Battalion had been on operations in Italy and returned to France in March 1918.
He died from wounds received in action, probably at the 6th Stationary Hospital which was at St Hilaire from June 1916 to August 1918.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £14 0s 11d. His father died in 1924 and his sister Miss A Reynolds (on behalf of his mother Clara) received a pension of 5 shillings a week from 24 December 1918.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Bankers).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
