Name
Robert Reynolds
20 Oct 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Saddler
920121
East Anglian
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Robert Edward Reynolds was born in October 1893 in Colney Heath to Robert and Rebecca Louisa Reynolds (nee Ray). Prior to enlisting for the army in August 1914 Robert was employed as a gardener for local landowner Lady Fellowes. On enlistment he joined the 1/4 East Anglian Brigade before being posted to the 54th East Anglian Divisional Ammunition Column. In July 1915 Robert was part of the Salonica Force that left Devonport bound for Gallipoli where he disembarked on 16 August, serving as a gunner. A month later he was admitted to hospital in Gallipoli suffering with a hernia before subsequently being transferred to hospital in Valetta, Malta, and then invalided back to England in October 1915. On arrival back in England he was designated as fit for home service only and carried out home defence duties for the next eighteen months. In an examination at Woolwich Dockyard in July 1916 Robert proved himself to be a skilled saddler and was appointed to this rank prior to being posted to the 67th Divisional Ammunition Column in Canterbury. In the summer of 1918 he was mustered as a gunner with the Royal Horse and Field Artillery, serving in D Battery of the 165th Brigade in France and Flanders from June 1918 until May 1919. Following demobilization he returned to The Chalkdrawers Arms in Colney Heath, home of his mother, Rebecca, and her second husband, George Carlisle. Robert was a recipient of the 1914 & 1915 Star, the British War medal and the Victory Medal.
Acknowledgments
Anne Roberts
