Poppy In memoriam Poppy

Private Thomas Alexander McReynolds

 

 

 

Thomas Alexander McReynolds was the son of Thomas Alexander and Mary Eliza McReynolds, of Kingsmills, Ardtrea, Stewartstown, County Tyrone. Born at Govan, Lanark, Scotland, he was the eldest of eight children.

McReynolds had served in the North Irish Horse before the war. He enlisted at Glasgow with the 5th Dragoon Guards (Service No.GS/3369) on 1 September 1914 and left for France on 8 November 1914. Twice wounded, he was transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 9 November 1917 and was posted to B Company of the 16th Battalion (No.32788).

in the autumn of 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres he was reported missing during an advance at Polygon Wood. A witness observed him being wounded and he was later declared as having died on 9 October. He was aged 25.

Private McReynolds has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Panels 23-28 or 163A.

 

 

 

Images of memorial kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org. Image of Private McReynolds and some of the above information sourced from Friends of the Somme, Mid Ulster Branch, www.cookstownwardead.co.uk. Obituary sourced from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.