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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 143

(x) Seven: Private J. Reynolds, East Surrey Regiment, attached Labour Corps, who died on 6 February 1918

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (5720 Pte J. Reynolds, 2nd E. Surrey Regt); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5720 Pte J. Reynolds. E. Surrey Regt); 1914 Star (L-5720 Pte J. Reynolds. 1/E.Surr:R.); British War and Victory Medals (5720 Pte J. Reynolds. E. Surr. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (5720 Pte J. Reynolds E. Surr. R.), very fine (6)

John Reynolds was born at Southwark and was a labourer upon his joining the East Surrey Regiment on 8 November 1898. Having served in South Africa from May 1900-January 1903, India from January 1903-November 1909, with the outbreak of the Great War he served in France from 19 September 1914. Thence serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 24 October 1915, he suffered scabies and malaria whilst on Salonica. Employed with the 819th Divisional Employment Company, Labour Corps from 30 November 1917, he was reported dangerously ill on 19 January 1918 and admitted to hospital. Reynolds died from tuberculosis on 6 February 1918 and is buried in the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Unusually his Army L.S. & G.C. followed via Army Order 451 in October 1920.

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Estimate
£240 to £280

Starting price
£190