REYNOLDS, James Henry
Surgeon Major. Army Medical Department. *
London Gazetted on the 17th June 1879.
Born on 3rd February 1844 at Kingsdown, Dublin.
Died on 4th March 1932 at London.
Memorial on grave at St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Rise, London.
On the 22nd/23rd January in 1879, at the Swedish Mission at Rorke's Drift, Surgeon Major Reynolds attended constantly to the wounded under fire. He also exposed himself to enemy crossfire, going and returning, as he conveyed ammunition from the store to the defenders.
* now Royal Army Medical Corps.
Additional information:. Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds was the son of Mr L Reynolds JP, Daliston House, Granard, Ireland. In 1880 he married Elizabeth McCormick.
His education was first at Castle Knock and then at Trinity College in Dublin.