REYNOLDS, JOHN THOMAS
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Private
1513810
27/09/1944
25
The Seaforth Highlanders 5th Bn.
II. E. 11.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
we will remember him. Devoted wife and baby Edna
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Son of John Thomas Reynolds and Harriet Rebecca Reynolds; husband of Edna Constance Reynolds, of Homerton, London.
Died of wounds and initially buried near the field hospital at the village of Meerveldhoven.
Original gravesite at Meerveldhoven.
From the service records of John Thomas Reynolds, the following account can be reconstructed.
John Thomas Reynolds was born on 30 November 1918 in Eton Mission, Hackney Wick, Middlesex. He enlisted in the British Army on 16 October 1939 and initially joined the 220th Searchlight Training Unit.
His early overseas service included deployment with the British Expeditionary Force from 16 March 1940 until 24 May 1940.
He married Edna Constance Cole on 18 July 1942 in Southampton. The couple had one child.
On 2 March 1944 he was transferred to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and on 20 September 1944 to the Seaforth Highlanders.
According to his service records, he was 5 feet 7⅜ inches tall, with fair hair and light brown eyes.
John Thomas Reynolds embarked for service in North West Europe on 27 September 1944. He died of wounds later that same day, on 27 September 1944.
