Douglas Reynolds
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Douglas Reynolds VC (20 September 1882 – 23 February 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Biography
The son of Lt.-Col. Henry Charles Reynolds and Sarah Eleanor B. Goodwyn, he was educated at Cheltenham College. He was 31 years old, and a captain in the 37th Bty., Royal Field Artillery, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
He was awarded the French Croix de Chevalier de Legion d'Honneur on 3 November 1914, and his Victoria Cross was presented to him by King George V at Buckingham Palace on 13 January 1915.[1]
Reynolds later achieved the rank of major, but was wounded in action by a gas shell,[1] and died in the Duchess of Westminster's hospital in Le Touquet, France, on 23 February 1916.[2]
Major Reynolds is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in Northern France,[3] while his Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich, London.
Freemasonry
He was Initiated into English Freemasonry in Kitchener Lodge, No. 2998, (New Delhi, India) on 12 June; Passed on 5 August and Raised on 2 December 1912.[4]
References
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- ↑ The Great War 1914-1918 Victoria Cross Freemasons. Granville Angell. 2014. pp. 387–390. Template:ISBN
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- British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
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- Burials at Étaples Military Cemetery