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Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Reynolds VC (3 February 1844 – 4 March 1932), born Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and ...
There were about 130 British troops at the Drift, of whom 98 were B Company, 2nd Battalion 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment commanded by Lieutenant G Bromhead. The senior officer present was Lieutenant J R M Chard of the Royal Engineers, who was supervising the river crossing.
James Henry Reynolds (Army Medical Department, later to be RAMC). Directions to Memorial. Died 4th. March 1932. Buried in the RC section of Kensal Rise Cemetery, Plot 504 NE. Accessed via Kensal Green tube station. On entering the main entrance, turn right into the Catholic section.
Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds VC. Surgeon Reynolds of the Army Medical Department was attached to the 24th Regiment and posted at Rorke's Drift with B Company 2nd Battalion. He was awarded the VC for his bravery at the defence of the post.
Reynolds, James Henry (1844–1932), army surgeon and VC, was born 3 February 1844 in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, second son of Laurence Reynolds, JP and owner of a tavern, hotel, and livery stables at 7 Queen St., Dublin, moving later (c.1868) to Dalyston House, Granard, Co. Longford.
ON January 22, 1879, during the Defence of Rorke's Drift, Surgeon- Major Reynolds behaved with conspicuous bravery, attending to the wounded under a heavy cross-fire from the Zulus on the hills above the Post, and a continual shower of assagais from those attacking the barricades.
James Henry Reynolds was born in Eastbourne, Sussex in 1895. He may be the only child of Henry James and Isabella Reynolds. He worked as a groom in 1911. He enlisted in Uxbridge into The Royal Fusiliers as a Lance Corporal and was Killed in Action, aged 21, on the 1st July 1916.
