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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 185

Pair: Lieutenant A. H. Reynolds, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who commanded the Mounted Infantry Company of the 1st Battalion

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lieut. A. H. Reynolds . R. Welsh. Fus.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. A. H. Reynolds. Rl. Welsh. Fus.), first with third clasp a tailor's copy, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps, cleaned, nearly very fine (2)

Alfred Howard Reynolds was born on 16 November 1877, the eldest son of Sir Alfred James Reynolds of Ayot Bury, Welwyn Herts, a Lieutenant of the City of London. Young Reynolds was educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford. A keen cricketer, he appeared in four Minor Counties cricket matches in 1897-98, when he played for the Hertfordshire XI.

Commissioned into the 4th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 4 January 1899, he had previously served with 7th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps. Reynolds embarked for South Africa in October 1899 with the 1st Battalion. After the Relief of Ladysmith he commanded the Maxim Gun detachment for a full year and was galloper for Lieutenant-Colonel Lyle, who commanded the Mounted Troops of Colonel Hicks' Column. Later Sir Robert Colleton gave him command of the Mounted Infantry Company of the 1st Battalion.

After returning home on the Kildonan Castle in July 1902, Reynolds joined the 2nd Battalion in Chakrata on 22 June 1903. On 22 October 1904 they marched to Agra but Reynolds fell ill and died at Meerut on 1 November 1904. In his memory his parents presented two silver cups to the Regiment, one to each Battalion, besides a portrait in oils of him.



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