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VC371   James Henry Reynolds

BORN   3 February 1844

DIED   4 March 1932  AGE   88

VC Won  22-23 January 1879   AGE   34

Place VC Won   Rorke’s Drift, Natal

War/Campaign  The Zulu War

Name   James Henry Reynolds   No.    

VC Issue No.   371   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Army Medical Department

Later   

Now   Royal Army Medical Corps

Rank VC Won   Surgeon Major

Rank End Of Career   Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel

Place Of Birth   Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, Ireland

Place Of Death   Empire Nursing Home, Victoria, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes   St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Rise, West London

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated   9 March 1932

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Grave 504

Gazetted   17 June 1879

VC Presented   16 July 1879 by General Sir Garnet Wolseley at St Paul's Mission Station, Zululand, South Africa

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Rise, West London

P  Plaque at National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffs

Named on Wife's Grave, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland

By The Way…

Headstone renovated in 1991

VC Held By

Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England

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Thank you to Nick & Lorna Martin for photos Rorke’s Drift