Background
The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Charles Reynolds and Sarah Eleanor B. Goodwyn, he was educated at Cheltenham College.
The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Charles Reynolds and Sarah Eleanor B. Goodwyn, he was educated at Cheltenham College.
He was 31 years old, and a Captain in the 37th Bty., Royal Field Artillery, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 26 August 1914 at Le Cateau, France, Captain Reynolds took up two teams with volunteer drivers, to recapture two British guns and limbered up two guns under heavy artillery and infantry fire. On 9 September at Pysloup, he reconnoitred at close range, discovered a battery which was holding up the advance and silenced lieutenant
Reynolds later achieved the rank of Major, but was wounded in action, and died in the Duchess of Westminster"s hospital in Le Touquet, France, on 23 February 1916. Major Reynolds is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in Northern France, while his Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich, London.
